Chinese labs DeepSeek and Moonshot were quietly relaying customer prompts to Claude through fraudulent accounts. Users thought they were using Chinese AI, but were actually getting answers from Claude

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1393607/chinese-labs-deepseek-and-moonshot-were-quietly-relaying-customer-prompts-to-claude-thro

www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026#:~:text=GTG%2D16002%3A%20Moonshot%20serves%20Claude%20instead%20of%20Kimi%20and%20collects%20exchanges%20for%20model%20training

ummm, the only times I ever used deepseek was fully offline on my hardware, I call bullshit

You almost certainly weren’t using a Deepseek model offline (unless you have 100s of GB of RAM/VRAM). You might have been using a small model distilled on Deepseek responses, but the smallest model made by Deepseek is about a 300B param model.

the smallest model made by Deepseek is about a 300B param model.

This is not correct. DeepSeek has plenty of smaller models. I just had a scroll through their huggingface, and picked out a few: DeepSeek-V2-Lite (16B), deepseek-moe-16b-chat, deepseek-llm-7b-chat, but there’s quite a few more too.

Though DeepSeek R1 is their flagship model, which is the one people usually think of, and that’s a 684B param model.