BlogsSimon Willison
Relay-market resellers reportedly pool or misuse LLM API access, turning exposed or weakly capped endpoints into a fraud and cost-abuse target.
Willison's link post, pointing to Matt Lenhard's investigation, describes discount reselling largely in China through proxy infrastructure that can aggregate credentials acquired via free trials, unprotected support bots, or reported payment abuse. The post frames strict per-key spending caps as a mitigation but does not independently verify the underlying investigation's mechanisms or prevalence.