Shadow: Cheats Api

Beyond LLM-specific "Shadow Cheats," the term fits into a broader cybersecurity threat: shadow APIs - Real Money, Fake Models - arXiv

The core finding of the research is that many shadow APIs are . While they claim to offer premium models (e.g., GPT-4), they often route requests through cheaper, inferior, or open-source models. Shadow Cheats API

The paper proposes and evaluates "model verification" methods to detect these "fakes": Beyond LLM-specific "Shadow Cheats," the term fits into