803Course · Practitioner

Model Theft and Extraction

Stealing a model through its API.

The Course

Stealing a model through its API. Extraction techniques, watermarking, and rate-limit defenses.

Outcomes
  • 01

    Explain model extraction.

  • 02

    Distinguish extraction from distillation.

  • 03

    Design API defenses.

  • 04

    Assess the legal exposure.

Prerequisites
  • Prompt Injection.
Pacing

~3 hours.

A Note from the Faculty

Every API is an exfiltration vector.