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How Chinese Developers Bypass Restrictions to Access Top US AI Models

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One high-volume seller on Xianyu advertises ‘low-latency, no-VPN’ access to the full Claude 3.5 suite.

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How Chinese developers bypass restrictions to access top US AI models

One high-volume seller on Xianyu advertises ‘low-latency, no-VPN’ access to the full Claude 3.5 suite.

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An Investigation Into the Gray Market for the Claude API in China: Industrialized Theft and Adulteration, and the Recording of Valuable User Interaction Information.

A survey published Monday by Zilan Qian, a researcher at the Oxford University China Policy Lab, revealed that a gray market for API proxy services in China is reselling Anthropic's Claude model.

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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

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

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Tom's Hardware broke the news 4 days ago on Saturday, May 9, 2026.

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How Chinese Developers Bypass Restrictions to Access Top US AI Models

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An Investigation Into the Gray Market for the Claude API in China: Industrialized Theft and Adulteration, and the Recording of Valuable User Interaction Information.

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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