Nous Research faced massive automated abuse when offering free access to their Hermes language model, with scripts creating thousands of fake accounts to bypass rate limits despite using Cloudflare Turnstile. After implementing Vercel BotID Deep Analysis at multiple checkpoints in their authentication and chat flows, they
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About Nous ResearchUnexpected app abuse during free tier promotionRetooling for security and efficiencyBotID blocked a coordinated attack that spiked traffic by 3,000%How BotID prevented abuse without impacting legitimate usersSort: