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The Token Black Market

Video Overview & Insights

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— @ThePrimeTimeagen

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Sources:

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Ahhhh YES!!! FINALLY!!! Cybercrime is cool again 😎

— @post_ironic_sophist

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667495

- https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-buy-cheap-claude-tokens-in

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Taste of that Fable

— @FrederickSprinkle

- https://x.com/HarshalsinghCN/status/2056626175959826692

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.01919

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i have no idea what you think you are solving by offering this info freely, but thanks!

— @Technoide1911

- https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-distillation-attacks

- https://www.404media.co/inside-the-underground-site-where-ai-neural-networks-churns-out-fake-ids-onlyfake/

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I love that generative model fraud is happening thanks to generative models themselves.

— @atillafiliz6591

Topics Covered:

- The underground Token Black Market

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I'm tired Boss

— @ClimberSeth

- How do people sell Tokens for so cheap

- Token Fraud

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Probably state sponsored for that data part

— @Al3xdude19

Chapters

00:00:00 - Intro

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Wild

— @ShadowSnake141

00:00:47 - Transit Stations

00:02:05 - Terminal Coffee

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Malicious package recommended by them shadow providers... it is just something else

— @xdman2956

00:02:38 - Distillation attacks?

00:03:21 - How to Buy and Sell Tokens

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Dang, I didn't realize the operation was so sophisticated

— @PunmasterSTP

00:08:27 - Why are they so cheap?

00:11:11 - My Theory

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We came a long way from Engineering is gone to your Token limit is gone.

— @estatetolearn6399

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It sounds a lot like those credit card skimmers... effectively "token skimming" and Transit Station being a VPN to get access to US models, etc. That's just crazy.

— @aliasfoxkde

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— @lolthspawn

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— @Oz-Pre

More User Perspectives

Buddy, this market’s been bullying me. Every BTC breakout I chase nukes, every ETH dip I buy dips harder. I’m tired of “just be patient” advice patience doesn’t pay the bills. Anyone actually trading with a mentor, not just watching recycled YouTube strategies? Willing to pay for 1-on-1 mentorship.

@MurphyHoratio

nothing is bad about this

@Limcacs

Thx for the tutorial

@synabunai

I have a cheap transfer station someone else need?

@user-xbox-v5g

I got the shakes. I need more tokens

@thatgameguy4929

Nah, distil everything, China! Of cource, USA would be super agains, but who are they for you? I'm all for it.

@omglul914

Meanwhile i have local GLM-5.2😎

@omglul914

How would people not see their usage go up with shadow siphoners? And api costs money now for Claude?

@LuxLucidOfficial

ill do you one better.. access to smart tv compute and verified residential network ids riding piggyback on legit smart tv "apps" already busted a scraping proxy network

@clachdhearg

11:01 I’ve long thought that the data production pipeline was at the center of all this. They are running out of data so they need to farm it from us Americans

@ImagebearingAI

I've got 3 Claude accounts (free Version ) in the same device no issues ever. So those articles are red herrings because they say credit cards and id are used.

@we-bet-for-you

Smart, make others pay for the tokens, then scrape their data from the transit station. Make other countries pay chine for giving away their secrets and labor.

@kjnoah

I bought 2500 usd worth of openai api api credit for 700 usd 😂😂

@LakshmanSounder-u5k1f

As a lawyer it's very funny to me how people are swayed to call some things as fraudulent and others as legit. Our economy is a fraud base system, we call it capitalism. Look deep enough and everything is a transfer station.

@RafaelLima-ce1rh

i like how you made yourself look like a pervert in the thumbnail

@gatoroda

Amazing breakdown..

@autumntalkies

English = British. American = English dialect.🤓

@VforVictorYT

This is why I only write in LISP.

@auntiecarol

Zimbabwe mentioned!

@alphashuro

What’s up with the crazy pedophile stash from the 80s bro ? 😂😂😂 loose that shit before you get accused of fucking kid bro that’s wild 😂

@IFixBrokenAgents

I'm going to start buying black market tokens to contribute to the big bubble pop

@p_stefanius

been doing this since shutterstock era

@ZZWWYZ

Distillation "attack" lol.. like you dint do the same ..

Twada kutta tommy Sadda kutta kutta😂😂

@SwapnilKumar-i4v

Who would be foolish enough to route their data through the little spying chinese router?

@nnm711

People complaining about stealing stolen data 😂🤡

@fujivato

i have a classmate who has been doing this, good for him tbh

@Indie-the-duck

This whole episode is like Mr Mutahar laugh on loop 🤣

@Cathekk

You just described a proxy, not a vpn

@louischerel4491

Umm... "high-risk medical benchmarks" where 84% is good enough??? 37% or 84%, both seem unacceptable risks... that's a dead patients.

@joehopfield

For all we know, we may have a black market version of Prime 😂

@dukkhamike

you cracked the code

@thexanman64

its subsidized by to harvest your prompts DUH....

@eagleeyez1

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@usa_nyc_trading

Long time expat in China here folks. 80% of the requests don’t go to frontier models. They relabel the requests as opus or codex but the requests go to cheaper and inferior models… that’s the economy

@mannycalavera84

how do you even use tokens? like i just ask chatgpt and gemini shit and they get it done, like how?

@watanabex

Your outro makes sense - wouldn't be surprised at all!
Instead of planting crypto miners, just steal a few tokens!

@pasteyourinjectionstringhere

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