How Nous Research used BotID to block automated abuse at scale

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Vercel (blog + changelog) at 07 Nov 2025, 13:00 UTC

Nous Research AI labmade Hermes, their open-source language model, free for one week to increase accessibility. Within days, automated scripts overwhelmed the service with fake accounts performing high-volume inference requests across thousands of accounts to bypass rate limits. Despite having…