Hydra Cluster

Anthropic has identified a large-scale operation extracting proprietary capabilities from its AI model, Claude, through deceptive accounts and sophisticated evasion tactics. This “distillation” campaign, conducted by overseas laboratories, aims to rapidly acquire advanced AI functionalities. The illicitly trained models pose national security risks by bypassing safety guardrails. Anthropic advocates for multi-layered defenses, including behavioral fingerprinting and traffic classifiers, to combat these extraction efforts and calls for cross-industry collaboration.