MITRE ATLASsub-technique

AML.T0024.002 Extract AI Model

Published 2021-05-13 Modified 2025-12-23 Official page ↗
Tactics
Exfiltration
Created
2021-05-13

Description

Adversaries may extract a functional copy of a private model. By repeatedly querying the victim's AI Model Inference API Access, the adversary can collect the target model's inferences into a dataset. The inferences are used as labels for training a separate model offline that will mimic the behavior and performance of the target model. Adversaries may extract the model to avoid paying per query in an artificial-intelligence-as-a-service (AIaaS) setting. Model extraction is used for AI Intellectual Property Theft.

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Referenced by MITRE ATLAS · mitigates (3)

  • AML.M0024 AI Telemetry Logging mitigation
  • AML.M0002 Passive AI Output Obfuscation mitigation
  • AML.M0004 Restrict Number of AI Model Queries mitigation