12 October 2026Research
Anthropic says new defenses cut data harvested by distillers by 90 to 99%
Anthropic details multi-layered defenses against distillation attacks on Claude, including a two-stage classifier with a false positive rate below 0.1%, and says tens of thousands of distiller accounts were banned. Early evidence shows the data harvested by distillers fell by about 90 to 99%.
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