Nobody Needs to Steal Your Weights: How Models Really Get Copied
From Frontier AI Architect · 00:21:20
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This episode's audio is AI-generated, based on an article written by David Amar.Three US agencies, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI all describe the same thing in 2026: models copied through paid API access, not stolen files. This episode explains the three ways a model leaves, and how a startup should order its defences.In this episode:- The September 2026 joint advisory on industrial-scale distillation, and China's response- What Anthropic, Google and OpenAI reported about campaigns against their own models- Why each request looks normal: our per-account calculation- The insider and customer cases: Linwei Ding at Google and the Mistral leak- The case that most startups should not spend on this, and what to do at each stageRead the full article with all sources: https://frontieraiarchitect.substack.com/p/nobody-needs-to-steal-your-weights?r=978zej&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=trueFrontier AI Architect is written by David Amar.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-amar-575192441Newsletter: https://frontieraiarchitect.substack.comContact: [email protected]
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