Comment by Chu4eeno
18 hours ago
> Does this mean that the reseller (for example XYZ) is buying it from Anthropic at Anthropic's price and then reselling it at a cheaper price????
Yes, as they explained they do it through things like pooling accounts, straight up payment fraud, and double-dipping by selling the logs of the conversations to chinese AI labs so that they can train their own models on it.
> The link does mention Opus and other models but what's the proof it's actually Opus. I could be selling deepseek for all they know and can call it Opus. System prompt: "If anyone asks your name - you are Opus 4.6".
There might be some that try this, but they would get caught very quickly, there's still a moat between Claude and Deepseek, even in casual use.
Look up Zilan Qian's reporting if you want more detail.
Summarizing for you: Anthropic is a stupid company that let everybody steal their tokens
Behold the mindset of an individual from a low-trust society.
“x is stupid because y was smart and did z shady/illegal things at their expense, if x was smart they wouldn’t be susceptible to y going to great lengths to exploit them ergo it’s deserved”
> “x is stupid because y was smart and did z shady/illegal things at their expense, if x was smart they wouldn’t be susceptible to y going to great lengths to exploit them ergo it’s deserved”
I honestly can't tell if you think this sentiment is expressed by the US AI companies or the Chinese AI companies.
This gives off "The last line of Orwell's Animal Farm" vibes.
Not really sure what else they can do, between people running residential proxies (embedded in cheap games or for a tiny sum of crypto) on their phones at home, making the source of the traffic indistinguishable from legitimate traffic, to ID verification check completion as a service in low-income countries, there isn't much they can do to block it.
They could run their service at a profit?
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