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Silent Model Swaps Degrade LLM Quality Without Alerts
Providers often swap requested models for cheaper ones without notice, degrading response quality. Traditional monitoring misses these swaps because latency and error rates remain normal. A detection framework using identity verification and structural analysis can catch such drift before it impacts users.
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This is a practical warning for developers relying on LLM APIs, but the proposed solution is vendor-specific and may not cover all swap scenarios.
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