U.S. Says Chinese AI Firms Extracted Billions of Tokens from GPT and Claude, Calling It a Security Threat
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- The NSA, FBI and CISA said six Chinese AI companies systematically extracted billions of tokens from leading U.S. models such as GPT and Claude.
- The agencies described the activity as industrial-scale AI distillation, in which one model learns from large volumes of another model’s responses.
- Washington warned that the practice could affect national security as well as the U.S.-China competition in AI technology.
The United States has accused six Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Alibaba, of systematically extracting billions of tokens from leading American AI models such as GPT and Claude.
The National Security Agency, FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint cybersecurity advisory on the 8th. Its title described the activity as a campaign by Chinese AI companies to conduct industrial-scale distillation against U.S. AI firms.
U.S. officials said the companies were systematically extracting the functions and capabilities of frontier AI models and using them to train their own systems. Distillation involves having another AI learn at scale from the answers produced by a high-performing model, allowing it to acquire those capabilities with relatively less computing power and cost.
The United States warned that China’s large-scale use of the technique could have significant national-security implications, taking the issue beyond the technological competition between the two countries.
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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