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Generally, I do not agree that operators can be expected to have comparable resources to attackers, because attackers have potentially boundless illicit resources, whereas an honest operator generally has to stick to honest resources. This is the same reason why I believe ID verification and other KYC measures actually increase fraud, because you alienate legitimate users (trying to protect their identity) while also providing attackers a way to insulate themselves from suspicion (using stolen identity).

With that said, I would tentatively agree in this case that LLM inference is getting cheap enough that defense is not necessarily that expensive, especially from providers like DeepSeek, even if you don't have inference at home, but as much as this might help an operator with an open mind, a lot just will not believe it matters until it's too late - most people are not used to dealing with this type of threat.