KBF: Knowledge Boundary as Fingerprint for Language Model and Black-Box API Auditing
Researchers introduce KBF, a black-box auditing protocol that detects fraudulent LLM API substitutions by analyzing model behavior at knowledge boundaries. Testing across 16 production endpoints revealed all economically relevant model swaps without false positives, and identified inconsistencies in 7 of 27 model cells across major AI platforms, particularly affecting Claude premium endpoints.