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title: "Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% (Anthropic)"
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summary: "Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99%. These methods have been used to reduce the effectiveness of distillation attacks on Claude in recent months."
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# Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5\.1 and Opus 5\.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% \(Anthropic\)

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**Published:** 2026-10-13T03:45:01.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** anthropic, safety, llm

## Summary

Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5\.1 and Opus 5\.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99%\. These methods have been used to reduce the effectiveness of distillation attacks on Claude in recent months\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://www.techmeme.com/261012/p46>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2109795898909950247>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2109800675664101749>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/JaguarAnalytics/status/2109811964884955542>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/edzitron/status/2109844566467850242>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2109849209742450696>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2109935284406157790>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/mark_k/status/2109981857517281395>)

