Dear City Leaders and Editors,
I recently shared a public petition calling for stronger protection of artificial intelligence–related intellectual property and greater enforcement prioritization by federal agencies.
I am writing to provide a brief update that may be relevant to this topic. On February 23, 2026, VentureBeat published an article titled “Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts to rip off Claude,” reporting allegations that thousands of fraudulent accounts were used to extract AI model outputs at scale for potential competitive model development.
Below is the VentureBeat article link:
https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropic-says-deepseek-moonshot-and-minimax-used-24-000-fake-accounts-to
This reporting appears to reflect the growing policy and security concerns surrounding AI intellectual property protection that my petition addresses. Given Silicon Valley’s leadership in AI innovation, I wanted to share this development for awareness and possible discussion within civic, policy, and media contexts.
Petition link:
https://c.org/K4SDSwx9hN
Thank you for your time and for supporting civic dialogue on emerging technology policy issues.
Sincerely,
Morgan Vale
Independent petitioner and AI policy researcher
Email: patentprotector@proton.me
