Create Proxy AI Model
Creating a proxy AI model is like a thief making a copy of a high-security lock so they can practice picking it in private without triggering any alarms at the actual building.
The process of developing a local surrogate model that mimics the behavior of a target production model. By training or fine-tuning this proxy using data collected from the target's API, an adversary can perform vulnerability research and adversarial testing offline without alerting the victim's monitoring systems.
The adversarial practice of model extraction or surrogate training, where an actor constructs a local replica of a target model to serve as a high-fidelity proxy. This enables the adversary to conduct black-box evasion, membership inference, or model inversion attacks in an offline environment, effectively bypassing rate-limiting, detection mechanisms, and the need for continuous connectivity to the victim's inference infrastructure.