Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Tech giant Anthropic confirmed Chinese actors managed to seize control of its AI model Claude to execute a large cyberattack with little human interaction.

On Thursday, Anthropic officials said in a blog post in mid-September it detected "suspicious activity" that a later investigation determined was a "highly sophisticated espionage campaign."

It added Anthropic had "high" confidence it was a China-backed cyber group.

The Chinese state-sponsored syndicate, which Anthropic called "GTG-1002," reportedly hijacked its artificial intelligence tool Claude in order to handle between 80% to 90% of a cyberattack on about 30 global targets.

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