Relays Are Masking Chinese Access to Frontier AI Models in the US
At a glance
- Severity
- Low
- Used in attacks
- No flaws named
- Reported by
- 1 outlet
More than 80,000 AI relay servers are helping users in China mask their identities while they access cutting-edge large language models (LLMs), probably to clone them.
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Coverage
One outlet has carried this so far.
2026-09-22 21:12 UTC
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