Over 100,000 prompts used in attempt to steal Gemini’s reasoning logic
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February 12, 2026
Google reports that its Gemini AI chatbot faced a large-scale cloning attempt involving over 100,000 prompts from commercially motivated actors seeking to extract the model’s reasoning algorithms. In a Thursday report Google described the activity as “distillation attacks,” repeated questioning intended to reveal Gemini’s patterns, logic, and inner workings, a process it labels “model extraction.” […]
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