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Off-the-Shelf Models Don’t Solve Data Provenance for Robots

calendar_today August 11, 2026 person Vince Antinozzi domain lakefs

A Frozen Model Is Not a Frozen System Talk to enough robotics teams and you hear the same line: “We’re using off-the-shelf models, so tracking what trained them isn’t really our problem.” It sounds reasonable. Someone else pre-trained the backbone. Your team didn’t touch the weights.

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