80,000 relay servers help users in China slip past U.S. AI region bans

Team Cymru Finds 80,000 AI Relay Servers

Team Cymru researchers uncovered more than 80,000 LLM relay servers that can conceal the location and identity of users accessing frontier AI models.

80,000 relay servers help users in China slip past U.S. AI region bans

More than 80,000 relay servers are helping users in China bypass geographic restrictions on leading U.S. AI models, according to Team Cymru. “What we have uncovered is an entire ecosystem designed explicitly to break the frontier model providers’ T&Cs, enabling fraud and illicit activity,” said Scott Fisher, Senior Principal Engineer at Team Cymru. Earlier this month, CISA, the NSA and the FBI warned in a joint advisory that China-based AI firms…