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
2026-05-09 · r/technology
Chinese 'transfer stations' are selling Claude API access at bargain-basement prices using stolen credentials, while quietly harvesting every prompt and response to resell as training data. So users think they're getting a deal on AI, but they're actually the product — their data scraped, repackaged, and sold to train the next generation of models. Anthropic's premium AI, now available at 90% off with a complimentary privacy violation.