Anthropic accuses Chinese companies of distillation attacks, kind of like how exchanges in the crypto world accuse competitors of money laundering—none of them are without original sin Last year, Anthropic had to pay $1.5 billion for downloading pirated books, and now they’re being sued by Reddit for stealing posts. Meanwhile, the APIs used by Chinese companies for 'distillation attacks' are all properly paid for The founder of Anthropic also left OpenAI with the core team to start their own business