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# ℏεsam on Anthropic's distillation post: the Kimi request traced to a suspected PLA-linked user

ℏεsam (@Hesamation), X, 2026-10-13.
Source: https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2109800675664101749

## Why it matters

The passage of Anthropic's post that travelled furthest on X (about 62k views): requests to Moonshot's Kimi were secretly forwarded to Claude, one of them about CCTV surveillance of an individual.

## Summary

Posted Oct 13, 2026 (00:17 UTC), quoting @AnthropicAI (https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2109795898909950247). The post quotes Anthropic's text accurately: 'we recently reported on a case in which requests to Moonshot's Kimi models were secretly forwarded to Claude as part of its distillation efforts. One request came from a user (who we believe was affiliated with China's People's Liberation Army) who sought to analyze CCTV surveillance of a specific individual.' The poster's own lead-in adds 'across 100s of CCTV cameras in Chengdu'; those details are not in Anthropic's distillation-defenses post (checked 13 Oct 2026) and may come from the September threat report or be wrong.

_Metrics as of 2026-10-13 via api.fxtwitter.com: 62,398 views, 743 likes, 33 reposts. Author: about 90,982 followers._

## Archived text

> I can’t believe I missed this LMAO…
> 
> Anthropic reports that a suspected Chinese military-linked user was using Kimi to track a person across 100s of CCTV cameras in Chengdu.
> 
> except Moonshot secretly routes the requests to Claude:
> 
> “For example, we recently reported on a case in which requests to Moonshot’s Kimi models were secretly forwarded to Claude as part of its distillation efforts. One request came from a user (who we believe was affiliated with China’s People’s Liberation Army) who sought to analyze CCTV surveillance of a specific individual.”
> 
> > Quoting @AnthropicAI: 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

Archived 2026-10-13 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
Counts: 62,520 views, 744 likes, 34 reposts, 20 replies (at fetch time)
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## Cited in

- 2026-10-12: [Anthropic says new defenses cut the Claude reasoning harvested by distillers by about 90 to 99 percent](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-12-anthropic-distillation-defenses/)