Anthropic: ‘significant progress in reducing the effectiveness of distillation attacks against Claude’
Anthropic @AnthropicAIX
Why it matters
Anthropic’s own announcement of its distillation-defenses post; about 1.17M views by midday Oct 13 (fxtwitter).
Summary
Posted Oct 12, 2026 (23:58 UTC). Anthropic says that over the last few months it has “made significant progress in reducing the effectiveness of distillation attacks against Claude” and links its research post (anthropic.com/research/distillation-defenses).
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Archived text
Over the last few months, we’ve made significant progress in reducing the effectiveness of distillation attacks against Claude.
In this post, we explain how: https://www.anthropic.com/research/distillation-defenses