SEO services are becoming the access infrastructure for model distillation

SEO服务如何成为模型蒸馏的基础设施

This piece reframes AI answer scraping from an SEO tool into a model access market. NetNut's takedown matters not for web scraping but because its scraper catalog openly sold access to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode. Anthropic's Feb report flagged 24,000 fraudulent accounts making over 16 million Claude interactions from DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax; Reuters later reported an Alibaba-related allegation of nearly 25,000 accounts and 28.8 million interactions. The core argument: tokens aren't the only cost—stable, programmable access to model product surfaces is the real scarce resource. Brand monitoring is the legitimate buyer; distillation attacks are the risky one. Both rely on the same infrastructure layer.

Why it matters: The angle is fresh—reframing a routine cybercrime takedown as an exposé of model distillation infrastructure. Hits all three HKR axes. The article provides concrete evidence that NetNut openly sold model access interfaces, giving it high information density. The deduction is t...