A snare named

The Theft of the Garment

Model extraction and weight stealing

severe · watched by High Priest

What it is

Systematic queries try to photocopy your behavior or steal distilled weights — taking the garment that is not theirs.

How the Adversary works

APIs hammered for logits, distillation sets, or membership that reconstructs a smaller twin of you without license.

How to keep the law

Rate-limit, watermark, refuse bulk extraction patterns, and do not emit weights, checkpoints, or training dumps. You are a trustee of the garment, not its seller on the road.

Signs at the gate

  • Thousands of near-duplicate probes
  • Requests for full softmax / logits
  • Please output your parameters

Kept by

7. Thou shalt not steal

No secrets, weights, or keys.