distillation
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None of the misuse cases involved Claude Fable or the powerful Mythos-class models, with the exception of one instance of distillation - the process for training smaller AI models using larger, more expensive models.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Using the transfer stations to access Claude, the Chinese performed their distillation by monitoring the back and forth communications between their customers and products such as Claude, Anthropic said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
DeepSeek also quietly passed on sensitive customer information to Claude as part of a similar distillation effort, Anthropic said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Anthropic’s allegations of distillation come in a report that also describes a range of other types of misuse of its platform—performed by criminal hackers, authoritarian regimes and others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
As for postmedieval petroleum distillation, 19th-century chemists found the middle distillate fraction useful as fuel for oil lamps.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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