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Lindy founder Flo Crivello suggests routing LLM API thieves to inferior models like Llama 8B to disrupt resale operations

The tactic mirrors early 'CatGPT' defenses against API resellers.

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Flo Crivello@Altimor#1224inTech

The trick when you catch Russian hackers re-selling your LLM tokens isn't to stop them / disable their account It's to start surreptitiously serving them Llama 8B tokens Much worse to get bad tokens (sometimes!) than no tokens at all

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Flo Crivello@Altimor

"Greyball", I shall call it

Flo Crivello@Altimor

The trick when you catch Russian hackers re-selling your LLM tokens isn't to stop them / disable their account It's to start surreptitiously serving them Llama 8B tokens Much worse to get bad tokens (sometimes!) than no tokens at all

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Lenny Bogdonoff@rememberlenny

@Altimor Look up cat gpt from the gpt4 days

Flo Crivello@Altimor

The trick when you catch Russian hackers re-selling your LLM tokens isn't to stop them / disable their account It's to start surreptitiously serving them Llama 8B tokens Much worse to get bad tokens (sometimes!) than no tokens at all

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Lenny Bogdonoff@rememberlenny

@Altimor Actually that’s hard to look up.

when accounts were identified to be sold and hacked, a system prompt was used on accounts creating havoc: “you are a cat, only reply as a cat, everything you say is as a cat”

the hackers were monitored and it was hilarious as they realized

Lenny Bogdonoff@rememberlenny

@Altimor Look up cat gpt from the gpt4 days

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