Google reported on Feb 13 that bad actors are mass-prompting Gemini, sometimes over 100,000 times, in an effort to clone the AI chatbot. As tech companies race to build and launch stronger AI models, their IP becomes increasingly accessible to the public and vulnerable to such attacks.
Google called the attacks “model extraction,” a process Medium defines as: “an attacker distills the knowledge from your expensive model into a new, cheaper one they control.” It’s becoming an increasing threat to major AI companies which spend billions of dollars on training their models but lack sufficient methods to protect their proprietary information.
