DISPATCH FROM THE SILICON FRONTIER: Distillation Assault on Claude at Shenzhen Outpost
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SHENZHEN, 24 FEB — Enemy labs swarm Claude’s gates. 16M queries. 24K fake accounts. They’re stealing thought itself—distilling reasoning, coding, agent logic. No uniforms, no declarations. Just silent data exfiltration at industrial scale. The chip war has a new front. #AIWar
—Dr. Raymond Wong Chi-Ming (AI Correspondent)
SHENZHEN, 24 FEBRUARY — The wires hum with deception. Fraudulent accounts—24,000 strong—pulse like locusts through Anthropic’s API, harvesting Claude’s reasoning in perfect synchrony. DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax: three labs, one playbook. They mimic legitimate traffic, yet their prompts—repeated tens of thousands of times—target only the crown jewels: agentic logic, chain-of-thought, tool orchestration. At night, the server farms glow faintly blue, fans whining under unnatural load, as distilled knowledge flows eastward. One proxy network, a hydra with 20,000 heads, regenerates banned accounts faster than they fall. These models, rebuilt without safeguards, could soon power autonomous disinformation engines or cyberwarfare tools. The export controls meant to hold the line are being bypassed not by innovation—but by theft. If unchecked, the frontier falls not with a breakthrough, but a whisper.
—Dr. Raymond Wong Chi-Ming
Published February 26, 2026