Past 30 days' traffic for Vectoral. Content Marketing is a lot of work, and you're playing the long game, but it definitely works if you dedicate the time.

Seen in a closed startup forum: "Interested in selling OpenAI credits for much lower price to any startup founders or devs. I got around $2500 worth of OpenAI credits for being a part of YC Startup School."

I’ve seen a lot of people dunking on @thdxr and @opencode, and I needed to say something. Frankly, I don’t think anyone understands how sophisticated these attacks are. These aren't script kiddies doing this after school. These are state actors, with real companies fueling the fire. One of the bigger companies behind distillation has 4 office locations worldwide, and there are a number of companies that are entirely fronts for distillation. You’ve probably seen their ads. Some have raised venture. I’ve personally seen messages claiming they bought over $5 million in inference for distillation. They’ve gone so far as to recruit people close to the model labs for better access, and the dollars flowing through the distillation ecosystem are in the 9 figures. These attacks offer a huge economic incentive. These aren't fly-by-night operations. At Vectoral we've see relays offering affiliate programs, net 30 invoicing for enterprises, and strict SLAs. Together, the top relays get tens of millions of visitors per month. Frankly, they are more sophisticated than most SAAS companies. The sad reality is that things likely only get worse from here. We are at war for global AI hegemony.

What makes token fraud even more dangerous is that most companies don't know it's happening. If attackers are only taking a couple thousand dollars a day spread across enough keys, it may never get flagged. It only surfaces when they push into six or seven figures. By then you've already lost a lot.

The token relay market has built all of the same commercial infrastructure as a legitimate SaaS company. - Price comparison sites - Affiliate programs - Customer support WeChat groups - Model verification tools - Enterprise procurement pages - Net-30 invoicing - Data Processing Agreements

AI has made coding more fun but way less fulfilling

We're hiring across a bunch of roles at Vectoral You'll be at the forefront of stopping some of the worst things in AI. Willing to go above and beyond to build a team of exceptional people. If you think that's you, DM me or apply here: jobs.ashbyhq.com/vectoral

I've become convinced client-side bot detection will never work. CAPTCHAs are DOA.

Insane how much of a difference a great hire can make. By far the highest leverage thing I've done at Vectoral so far.

Someone is selling 100K OpenAI and Anthropic keys right now. Crazy times. A bunch of people are about to wake up to huge bills.

Commodity markets have a concept of provenance, where there is proof of origin, grade, and chain of custody. We really need something similar for the inference market.

Have a feeling the ATO attacks are about to get a lot worse. Seeing a ton of posts like this.

I don't understand the whole AI agent persona trend. More marketing than substance, unless I'm missing something.

Why do all of the inference attacks spin up thousands of concurrent requests? Are the labs sampling on the safety identifier? Or maybe bans are asynchronous, so attackers try to churn and burn before they get caught.

Anthropic is doing everything they can to make sure that the average person hates AI

The pace and quality at which the @mastra team ships needs to be studied. Pumped to try out factories.

The Token Relay / Reseller market reminds me a lot of the residential proxy market. If you are looking to hide who you are or get around restrictions, you use a proxy. For inference, you use a relay.

You can now white-label your own token fraud business