The Anthropic Hypocrisy: "What's Yours Is Mine, What's Mine Is Mine" Why Practitioners Still Do Not Get Best Practices
Anthropic alleges that DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax ran "industrial-scale distillation campaigns" using 24,000 fraudulent Claude accounts and 16 million API exchanges to steal Claude's capabilities. They frame this as intellectual property theft and a national security threat.
The hypocrisy: Anthropic and other frontier AI labs built their foundation models by scraping, licensing, and appropriating massive amounts of data across all four quadrants of the EACOE data/information understanding framework - often without clear consent, compensation, or transparency. Now they demand legal protection for their own outputs while the original creators whose work fueled those models remain uncompensated and unacknowledged.
