Comment by gmerc

11 hours ago

How many “capabilities” did they “extract” from those books?

The capabilities of the books' writers to produce the text contained within them, which is exactly what Alibaba "extracted" from Claude. The point here is that Anthropic's framing as some sort of sophisticated technological attack is the ridiculous part. It's writing prompts and saving responses. We're all running "distillation attacks" on Claude, every day! Most of us just don't feed that stuff into a training corpus.