Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Cloud Code

Chinese company Alibaba has decided to ban its employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool, CloudCode, effective July 10, Reuters reports. numerous Reports.

Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as foreign entities owned by those companies, from using its models. The company was reportedly Work to fill the gaps Which allows Chinese users to access Cloud.

according to Recent reddit postSome of the exploits that were closed included a version of Claude Code that could secretly identify Chinese users. Anthropist Tariq Shibar He said in a post on X That this was “an experiment we launched in March that was intended to prevent account abuse by unauthorized sellers and protect against drips.” (distillation It is a practice in which artificial intelligence models are trained on the outputs of other models.)

“The team has come up with stronger mitigations since then, and we actually intended to remove this for a while,” Shehebar said.

However, Alibaba has reportedly classified Cloudcode as high-risk software and is directing employees to use the company’s Qoder tool instead.