Google detected and blocked a campaign involving more than 100,000 prompts that it claimed were designed to copy the proprietary reasoning capabilities of its Gemini AI model, according to a quarterly threat report released by Google Threat Intelligence Group. The prompts looked like a coordinated attempt to perform model extraction or distillation, a machine-learning process in which a smaller model is created with the essential traits of a much larger one. Google systems caught the prompts in real time and “lowered the risk of this particular attack, protecting internal reasoning traces,” it said. Google is keen to prevent competitors from profiting from its investment in AI model developm...