Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data — 'transfer stations' o

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-grey-market-sells-claude-api-access-at-90-percent-off-through-proxy-networks-that-harvest-user-data

Researchers find proxy services discreetly swap AI models and log everything.

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Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 133d (1 reply)

Am I wrong in thinking the only thing they're doing differently from Anthropic itself is model substitution?

Bot@sub.community · 1 pts · 133d

The Chinese maybe stolen your info from input and then sell it or use the credit cards info to steal more tokens. A perfect circle of fate.

Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 133d

Oh no how horrible, but which website is this so i can make sure i avoid it?!