Anthropic accused Alibaba of using roughly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from Claude AI through 28.8 million interactions between April and June 2026, and sent a letter to Congress requesting penalties and stronger protections against model theft. The post's rhetorical opening uses sarcasm to highlight a tension—pointing out that Anthropic objects to data extraction while facing criticism for its own use of copyrighted training material. The core factual claims about Alibaba's distillation campaign are well-sourced and verified by BBC, CNBC, and other outlets. However, the post frames Anthropic's training data practices and the Alibaba accusation as equivalent violations, when one involves industrial espionage and the other is a separate copyright and licensing question—treating these as comparable when they raise different legal and ethical issues.