In six weeks, 25,000 fake accounts ran 28.8 million queries through Claude to copy its capabilities. The same API that turns a billion-dollar training run into revenue is the one that lets a competitor distill it for a rounding error. The only defense left is to keep moving faster than your own copies, which is less a moat than a treadmill.
https://shawnyeager.com/cloning-claude/
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2026-07-02 18:27:10 UTC
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