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 station...

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Original Title: 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’ operate through proxy networks that harvest user data

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

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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.

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

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