OpenAI has leveled data-scraping allegations against its Chinese competitor, Moonshot AI. It connected a massive wave of probing activity, designed to decode how its models think through complex problems, to thousands of attempts from Moonshot-affiliated users.
Beginning in the first week of July, Moonshot’s associated, coordinated campaign swelled to 16,000 requests from over 4,000 users in just two days, OpenAI disclosed. The ChatGPT maker eventually mapped out more related activity running through a cluster of over 15,000 users, all of which was fully disrupted by July 28.
Based on the company’s analysis, the campaign did not lead to any database compromise, broken encryption, or exposure of stored user chats. However, the attackers exploited prompts and model manipulations, enabling them to visibly duplicate prohibited reasoning capabilities through an elaborate, large-scale operation that violated the terms of service.
