Man who siphoned 4M accounts' credits from AI platform reselling them gets suspended sentence
葬AI · wechat · 2026-11-04
A tongue-in-cheek postmortem of a real Chinese court case: a man exploited an aggregator platform (Yanyu Tech's LibTV/Lovart, which resells Volcano Engine's Seedance API) by mass-registering accounts via one IP — over 4 million in total — pooling signup credits and reselling cheap AI image/video generation. When the platform added e-signature checks, he used AI tools to script automated signature forgery. He was convicted of illegally obtaining computer system data and sentenced to three years, suspended, plus a ¥40,000 fine. The post notes the irony: the scheme cost the platform only ¥34,000 but brought it 300,000 registered users, and debunks rumors that the platform "watered down" Seedance — it used full-strength official APIs, which is exactly what attracted the compute thief.
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