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How much did Anthropic say its new controls reduced extraction?

Anthropic reports that reasoning tokens it observed being extracted on its own platform fell by 10 to 100 times after new controls. That is provider-reported telemetry, not an independent measure of all extraction across the industry.

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Anthropic’s Distillation Defenses Show Why Extraction Is a Lifecycle Problem

Anthropic describes controls against model-output extraction, from reasoning access to account networks, while acknowledging tradeoffs and adaptive attackers.

Crashtech Editorial October 28, 2026 AI & Society

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