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Model Distillation Is Just Espionage With Better PR

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If your threat model for a frontier LLM didn't include "nation-state actors scraping your chain-of-thought at industrial scale via bulk API subscriptions," it does now. Context This isn't a novel attack category. It's the AI-era version of something security teams have watched for two decades: scra…

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  1. 2026-09-10 12:48 · DEV Community — AI
    Model Distillation Is Just Espionage With Better PR

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