How to buy cheap Claude tokens in China
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- #Grey Market
- #AI Access
- #Geopolitics
- Transfer stations (API proxies) in China enable cheap access to US AI models like Anthropic's Claude, bypassing geo-blocking and KYC measures.
- The grey market operates modularly, with upstream resource providers (account merchants, SMS verification) and downstream customers (developers, enterprises).
- Low token prices (as low as 10% of official rates) stem from tactics like bulk account farming, model swapping, and monetizing user logs for data harvesting.
- This economy highlights limitations of access controls (geoblocking, KYC) in AI governance, as evasion infrastructure adapts and persists.
- The transfer station supply chain fuels broader criminal markets (fraud, biometric harvesting), with harms extending beyond geopolitics to safety and privacy.