What Does This Mean?
Taking a model built substantially on another company's proprietary weights or outputs and rebranding, fine-tuning, or repackaging it enough to obscure that underlying origin, presenting it as an independently developed model.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The benchmark outputs were nearly identical to the other lab's model, community's calling it model laundering."
LORE & ORIGIN
Borrows 'laundering' from money laundering, coined within open-model communities auditing suspiciously similar model behavior to describe this practice of disguising a model's true origin rather than disclosing it.
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