Anthropic's blocking of Chinese IP and frequent ban of users has led to an even worse situation. Chinese users are forced to use various router providers to relay their models, and some unscrupulous routers sell their instance exchange to data companies, which then repackage it into training sets and sell them to LLM companies, without actually having need to creat so many accounts.
This is why OpenAI and Anthropic are so actively advocating for the banning of services like OpenRouter; they want to control the source and destination of all data.
This is why OpenAI and Anthropic are so actively advocating for the banning of services like OpenRouter; they want to control the source and destination of all data.

