#artificial intelligence
Mar 2026
Real Money, Fake Models: Deceptive Model Claims in Shadow APIs
This paper presents the first systematic audit between official LLM APIs and corresponding shadow APIs, and uncovers widespread behavioral inconsistency and fingerprint-based evidence consistent with deceptive model claims in a subset of audited endpoints.
Ya-Ge Zhang, Yu-Kun Jiang, Zeyuan Chen et al.
· arXiv.org · 15 citations
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