Claude KyC: The stop isn't dead, but it's harder for ordinary people

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Mo is the station chief of a Claude transit station. In less than two months, she has served a group of customers in and out of Claude's model, 80 per cent of them at home, with the rest scattered in Europe, Latin America, South Asia and the third world, "no America alone."。

She also shared her business observations on her web page and social accounts, giving some users who had no knowledge of the way in which the grey area operated for the first time. The transit station is a middle ground for repeated calibration between platform wind control, technical capability and customer trust。

Mo describes herself as not a typical transit station director, who does not fight for prices but provides quality services to B-end clients. She had a violent theory that the long-term viability of the business was a long-standing example of American models. But at the same time, she is not optimistic about AI as a whole, and even with a six-percent discount based on regional pricing, high-quality smart resources remain a heavy burden for people in many Third World countries。

Yesterday's news came from Claude's passport launch, the KYC verification, Mo's initial judgment was that it didn't have much impact on the transhipment industry, but just one day later, the KYC chill came. What makes her more concerned is that this new rule may push more ordinary users to transit stations, and that it is not necessarily a good thing that it is too costly for ordinary users to identify a spectral channel。

Here is Mo:

Yesterday, Claude came out with news of a passport check, and many people thought the stop was completely out of hand, but Claude's current KYC was randomly triggered, and I thought that my business would not be affected for the time being。

The next day, it was discovered that this had a negative impact on our operations, that the overall cost of the pool would increase and that the stability of the channels would be affected。

THERE ARE MANY COUNTER-MEASURES FOR THE ENTIRE TRANSIT-STATION BUSINESS. OF COURSE, IT'S ONLY NOW, AND IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO REACH ALL USERS。

Claude's doing KYC is his choice, and now the whole AI is in the upswing, and other companies haven't come up with so much demand or pressure like Claude, so other models haven't done KYC yet, but the situation is not good。

It's a trade at the stop

The business at the stop is to buy low sales, pull out the account amount, sell out of the cycle at a certain point, and earn money later。

The threshold for doing this is really low, as long as you have one or two customers。

I'VE MET SOMEONE BEFORE, SOLD THEM EXPENSIVE, AND I WENT TO HIS WEBSITE FOR SIX MONTHS, AND IT'S STILL HTTP. THE DEFENSIVE RATE OF ATTACK IS LOW AND CLIENT DATA IS EASILY LEAKED。

Moreover, clean business is not an option for all。

One is the call records for packing users, and some of the transit stations, in order to flush the C-end, appear to be underpriced and sell back-end databases, such as Prompt, model returns, to model training companies. He actually earns the money. Compared to this, the model is a minor enzyme。

The cost of identifying ordinary users is too high, and even some of the transit stations were sold to you in the front, and then they were faked。

A lot of friends would come to me asking me how to screen a specter-based transit station, first of all to ask which channel it is coming from upstream. In general, the highest quality is the Claude service offered by Amazon AWS, followed by Claude's official reverse service, followed by a better industry reputation like Antigravity. If he didn't know where to draw it, he would have to call a question mark。

DIFFERENT CHANNELS AFFECT OUTPUT, AND AWS AND OFFICIAL CHANNELS REVERSE IT VERY CLEAN. AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE C.O.R., FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU TALK TO THIS MODEL THREE TIMES, IF IT CAN READ THE INFORMATION FROM THE TEXT IN FRONT AND SAVE YOU MONEY IF IT'S HIGH。

It is further possible to measure typical features of some official channels, such as native WebSearch, and multi-modular image understanding. The originals can do both. The same Prompt is distributed simultaneously to official models and transit stations, comparing output quality, depth of response, ability to reason. If the response from the transit station is clearly lighter and faster, it is generally possible to judge that the version has been downgraded. Third-party assessment software could also be used。

At the beginning of April, Claude officially adjusted the overall supply to be very tight and had a very strong impact on the transit station. It was a difficult time for me to build different channels for my technology and introduce credible external channels to meet client needs。

And this experience also makes me understand an unusual way to distinguish, and if the model is all over the Internet, your pool is dry, and the customers are understanding. But if your pool isn't dry, the client will see you're a fake. That's why you're under seal. You're out of line。

C. THE WAY IN WHICH THIS TERMINAL IS OPERATED IS VERY INTENSE. A SUDDEN WAVE OF SELF-ADVERTISING IN YOUR CLIENT BASE, PRETENDING TO BE DOUBLE-EDGED, AND MORE EXTREME ATTACKS ON YOUR WEBSITE ARE CAUSING YOU TO CRASH。

The industry's longest is about two or three years, and the first two years are better than I know, with a one-night rich man. It's hard to change now, with more people doing it and more wind。

So a lot of people this year want to make a lot of money。

I've seen the most ridiculous guy, the original price is $1.8, the current price is off 0.8 and it's true. As a result, the users found out at night that they were wrong and had to go to him to get skinned. There are a lot of loose friends, who are increasingly in trouble, and more so in two months。

"Only America."

I myself have been watching the business for almost a year, and I have joined different circles, but I have actually been doing a stopover for less than two months。

Both internal and external customers, home accounts for about 80%. Basically only Claude, by providing GPT's 5.4 and 5.3. Based on these two clients, model performance and performance requirements are high, with many developing pure research and development teams。

The early days of OpenClaw fire came with a group of white users who were very interested in Agent. But then, because of Claude's costs and daily usage habits, this group of users disappears. The last ones are developers, research and development teams, and some B-end enterprises。

I'M ALSO A SEO AND A GEO, SO THERE'S A LOT OF OVERSEAS DEVELOPERS LOOKING FOR THEM, IN EUROPE, THE THIRD WORLD, LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH ASIA, BUT ONLY THE UNITED STATES。

And even the owner of the Bali surf shop, curious to ask, "How do you sell this?" He's white, and he's upset about Claude how expensive he is. The world knows Claude's good, and the world's upset about Claude's price. Claude is a good model for globals, but not all people can afford it, except companies at the enterprise level or that can provide stable Token supplies。

I'm most touched by clients from third world countries like India and Iran。

According to their monthly salary levels, Claude ' s price is very burdensome for them and forced to find cheap channels。

They're going to ask if there's a difference between Sonnet, Sonnet and Opus that could be two or three times the price, and they're naturally looking at more cost-effective channels, even on that basis using relatively cheap models。

THERE WAS AN IRANIAN CLIENT WHO HAD BEEN BLOCKED FOR WAR REASONS AND WHO WAS IN GREAT NEED OF SMART AI TO HELP WITH MANY THINGS, EVEN AT THE RISK OF BEING ARRESTED BY THE GOVERNMENT. WHEN I TALKED TO THEM, IT SEEMED LIKE WAR WASN'T THAT FAR AWAY。

BEFORE, WE IMAGINED DOING OVERSEAS BUSINESS RELATIVE TO DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, BUT IN FACT, MANY THIRD-WORLD CLIENTS FACED THESE PROBLEMS AND WANTED TO USE AI, AND WERE FORCED TO TURN TO TRANSIT STATIONS。

Nobody knows what kind of users Anthony was really trying to protect from this time KYC, transit stations, distilled attacks on laboratories, or restricted areas。

But what I feel about this is complicated, on the one hand, it seals off the roads of many ordinary users, and who really needs Claude, it turns to a transit station, which is a kind of good thing. On the other hand, it is difficult for ordinary users to find access to spectrograph channels, and the market is disrupted by the mere distribution of counterfeit goods。

Honestly, this is not a good thing. Those who have the ability to open Claude's subscription are demanding stability. It took time to find out if there was any plagiarism, which might be a source of disappointment。

Reverse transit station

I don't think I'm a typical transit station chief。

THE TRANSIT STATION EXISTS FIRST AND FOREMOST BECAUSE OF POOR INFORMATION, AND AS LONG AS THERE ARE CLIENTS WHO HAVE A NEED FOR CHEAP API, BOTH IN AND OUT OF THE SEA, THE BUSINESS WILL CONTINUE。

I have a theory that if the American model continues to be strong, the transit station will remain, because it will be expensive。

The dollar exchange rate was there, training a model that the United States wanted 10 million dollars, and China could only have 10 million yuan, and that price difference was always there。

But if the Chinese model does rise, it's strong enough to shoot down the US model, then the transit station is really out of play, because the Chinese model is definitely better than the US。

That is to say, the long-term viability of this business is precisely the long-term dominance of the United States model。

In terms of business itself, it is low-threshold, anyone can enter, and the ceiling is high, and it can even be said to be "compatible" with the platform, because the more the platform is blocked, the more the transit station will not disappear。

BUT I'M NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT AI AS A WHOLE。

BEFORE I REALIZED THAT AFTER THE TIME OF AI, A LOT OF LABOR, BASIC INTELLECTUAL LABOR, DANGEROUS JOBS COULD BE DEALT WITH BY MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, AND PEOPLE HAD TIME TO FOCUS ON THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND ON THE HUMAN PERSON。

But then it turns out that even though many services have already been priced on a regional basis, such as the purchase of the Claude model in Africa, it's only a six-cent discount, which is still expensive for locals。

IN THESE AREAS, PEOPLE WITH AI ARE LIKE THEY'VE GOT WINGS, PEOPLE WITHOUT AI ARE WALKING ON THE GROUND. THIS SPEED WILL ONLY WIDEN THE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR AND FOCUS MORE WEALTH ON THE RICHER。

While the open source model is advancing, it is still a small number that can really be deployed on their own equipment to serve everyday life。

The big model could be an era of opening and closure. I'd like to try to give everyone equal access to better intelligence, a very serious subject。

What I have long wanted to do is to make some open-source models, or China's high relative value models, sea, directly to some Latin American countries, less developed European countries, and down to South and South-East Asia。

AI, THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR EVERYONE. FROM A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE, I'LL CONTINUE TO BE A TRANSIT STATION, BUT I'LL TEND TO DO REAL OPENINGS OUTSIDE THE BUSINESS. THAT'S WHAT I CAN SEE AND DO。