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
Toms Hardware
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Machine Learning
Generative AI
A grey-market economy of API proxy services in China is reselling access to Anthropic's Claude models at as little as 10% of the official price.