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Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models
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original reporting
Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models
cyberscoop.com · 35d ago · September 8th, 2026
The U.S. government is accusing Chinese AI companies of engaging in a deliberate and “systematic” effort to illegally distill U.S. frontier AI models and their capabilities. According to a joint cybersecurity advisory from the National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI, the sheer scale of these efforts since 2024 indicate that distillation is a critical part of China’s AI industrial policy. “China-based artificial intelligence companies are conducting systematic extraction of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. AI companies’ models through industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns that form the core—not merely a supplement—of their AI development strategy,” the agencies wrote. The advisory names Chinese companies like DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI, saying they spent billions of tokens across millions of exchanges and requests with frontier U.S. AI models like Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and xAI’s Grok, since at least late 2024. The U.S. agencies said the companies used data culled from these interactions to strengthen their own domestic models, a practice that is tacitly encouraged but not directed by political leaders in Beijing. DeepSeek , for example, distilled frontier U.S. models to generate synthetic training data for its R1 and R3 models, including four different versions of Claude, two versions of Gemini, five versions of ChatGPT and Grok 4. T
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update from securityonline.info
US agencies warn of malicious AI distillation campaigns. New data shows systematic extraction of US frontier AI models. # AISecurity # CISA
securityonline.info · 35d ago · September 8th, 2026
US agencies warn of malicious AI distillation campaigns. # AISecurity # CISA
via Mastodon https://securityonline.info/malicious-ai-distillation/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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update from cyberscoop.com
The US accuses China of systematically distilling American AI models — essentially extracting capabilities through repeated querying, withou
cyberscoop.com · 35d ago · September 8th, 2026
The US accuses China of systematically distilling American AI models — essentially extracting capabilities through repeated querying, withou
via Mastodon https://cyberscoop.com/us-accuses-chinese-ai-companies-distillation/
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mentioned by www.cisa.gov
"China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies" The National Se
www.cisa.gov · 35d ago · September 9th, 2026
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mentioned by osintsights.com
US Accuses China of Systematic AI Model Distillation The US has accused China of systematically siphoning off proprietary AI capabilities fr
osintsights.com · 35d ago · September 9th, 2026
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update from www.digitimes.com
US agencies are reportedly asking AI firms to silently degrade responses to traffic suspected of being used for Chinese model distillation —
www.digitimes.com · 35d ago · September 9th, 2026
US agencies are reportedly asking AI firms to silently degrade responses to traffic suspected of being used for Chinese model distillation —
via Mastodon https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260909VL206/ai-training-claude-deepseek-geopolitics.html