No, this reseller 中转站 thing is basically a loss leader for certain chinese ai labs to distill claude with verified human input.

No, it's part of the capability theft. They resell Claude tokens cheaply and then simultaneously log everything for distillation. Even if they take a small loss on the token sales it's much cheaper than the equivalent compute.

Not really. I think Anthropic focuses on identifiable distillation attacks rather than the (even larger) industrial-scale token harvesting and reselling operation, because they don’t want people to know how easy it is to get cheap Claude tokens.

Once people realize they can access Anthropic models at a 90% discount, they won’t want to pay full API prices anymore.