14 October 2026

Anthropic says it is blocking mass copying of its Claude models

First reported

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  • Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, says rivals are copying its models at large scale.
  • Copying works by sending huge numbers of queries through networks of fake accounts, then training a smaller model on the answers.

How it was covered

Reported by The Decoder