Model extraction, abuse and denial of wallet
Threats to the service itself: model extraction and distillation theft, membership inference, resource-exhaustion and denial-of-wallet attacks, abuse of free tiers, and the controls: quotas, rate limits in tokens, anomaly detection, budgets, and legal and technical deterrents.
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Not every attack targets users. Some target your model as an asset and your infrastructure as a bill.
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