OpenAI Blames Moonshot for Mass Data Extraction on Its AI Models
THE SO WHAT
Model exfiltration at this scale turns frontier systems into IP and security assets that need nation-state-grade protection — not just rate limits. If you expose high-value model behavior via APIs, treat scraping and behavioral cloning as core threat models and budget for active defense.
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