So the parasites have already gathered around the ?legitimate? AI
services, and are busy sucking the lifeblood off them in any way they
can manage <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-grey-market-sells-claude-api-access-at-90-percent-off-through-proxy-networks-that-harvest-user-data>.
And none of the countermeasures works -- not for long.

Does anybody feel much sympathy? Or are you looking forward to this
hastening the inevitable implosion of the AI bubble?

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 2026-05-11, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

So the parasites have already gathered around
the ?legitimate? AI services, and are busy
sucking the lifeblood off them in any way they
can manage
<https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-grey-market-sells-claude-api-access-at-90-percent-off-through-proxy-networks-that-harvest-user-data>.
And none of the countermeasures works -- not for long.

Does anybody feel much sympathy? Or are you
looking forward to this hastening the inevitable
implosion of the AI bubble?

Standard issue results for self-centric beings.

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On 11/05/2026 3:11 AM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

So the parasites have already gathered around the ?legitimate? AI
services, and are busy sucking the lifeblood off them in any way they
can manage <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-grey-market-sells-claude-api-access-at-90-percent-off-through-proxy-networks-that-harvest-user-data>.
And none of the countermeasures works -- not for long.

Does anybody feel much sympathy? Or are you looking forward to this
hastening the inevitable implosion of the AI bubble?

You will lose your sympathy the moment you realize who will pay the bill
;/ or the moment another parasite jumps on your ldo bubble.

--
none
http://morena.rip

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 11/05/2026 02:11, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

So the parasites have already gathered around the ?legitimate? AI
services, and are busy sucking the lifeblood off them in any way they
can manage <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-grey-market-sells-claude-api-access-at-90-percent-off-through-proxy-networks-that-harvest-user-data>.
And none of the countermeasures works -- not for long.

Does anybody feel much sympathy? Or are you looking forward to this
hastening the inevitable implosion of the AI bubble?

At the moment hardware and services to host is expensive, and to some
extent monopolized by those that have the capital to build the current infrastructure. However, there will come an age where that will be much cheaper and all of our IT symmetric key security mechanisms smashed.

For physical authentication at a bank in the future, you will be
expected to give a blood sample, and bring a relative for two factor ...

--
Adrian C

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On 2026-05-11, Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> wrote:

On 11/05/2026 02:11, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

So the parasites have already gathered around the ?legitimate? AI
services, and are busy sucking the lifeblood off them in any way they
can manage
<https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-grey-market-sells-claude-api-access-at-90-percent-off-through-proxy-networks-that-harvest-user-data>.
And none of the countermeasures works -- not for long.

Does anybody feel much sympathy? Or are you looking forward to this
hastening the inevitable implosion of the AI bubble?

At the moment hardware and services to host is expensive, and to some
extent monopolized by those that have the capital to build the current infrastructure. However, there will come an age where that will be much cheaper and all of our IT symmetric key security mechanisms smashed.

For physical authentication at a bank in the future, you will be
expected to give a blood sample, and bring a relative for two factor ...

Four-factor authentication.

1) Something you know
2) Something you have
3) Something you are
4) Someone who knows you

Of course that could get crowded if #4 is recursive :)

--
Ian

"Tamahome!!!" - "Miaka!!!"

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 2026-05-11, none <none@none.rip> wrote:

On 11/05/2026 3:11 AM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

So the parasites have already gathered around
the ?legitimate? AI services, and are busy
sucking the lifeblood off them in any way they
can manage
<https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-grey-market-sells-claude-api-access-at-90-percent-off-through-proxy-networks-that-harvest-user-data>.
And none of the countermeasures works --
not for long.

Does anybody feel much sympathy? Or are
you looking forward to this hastening the
inevitable implosion of the AI bubble?

You will lose your sympathy the moment you
realize who will pay the bill ;/ or the moment
another parasite jumps on your ldo bubble.

Given the vast majority of human verbiage is
lies, AI is just regurgitated lies. Is there
really *that* much difference? So how could
I possibly care? It's on the screen, I
ingest grains of salt while reading,
and then it's over and usually
completely forgotten not much
later.

Not unlike farts, come to
think of it.

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On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:28:06 +0100, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

At the moment hardware and services to host is expensive, and to
some extent monopolized by those that have the capital to build the
current infrastructure. However, there will come an age where that
will be much cheaper and all of our IT symmetric key security
mechanisms smashed.

The primary costs of running an AI service (or any large-scale compute facility) or not the hardware cost, or even the salaries of the crew (sysadmins, developers, whatever): it?s the electricity bill.

And that is going up, not down.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.14
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 2026-05-11, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:28:06 +0100, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

At the moment hardware and services to host is expensive, and to
some extent monopolized by those that have the capital to build the
current infrastructure. However, there will come an age where that
will be much cheaper and all of our IT symmetric key security
mechanisms smashed.

The primary costs of running an AI service (or any large-scale compute facility) or not the hardware cost, or even the salaries of the crew (sysadmins, developers, whatever): it?s the electricity bill.

And that is going up, not down.

And that's reportedly being paid not by existing capital but by capital
the GenAI companies have Enroned out of a void.

--
Nuno Silva

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