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This brief describes how the creation of Large Language Model (LLM) files, including formats like .gguf, .safetensors, .ggml, and Modelfiles, by local AI inference frameworks such as Ollama, llama.cpp, GPT4All, and LM Studio can be detected on Windows endpoints, indicating potential shadow AI deployments, unauthorized model downloads, or rogue LLM infrastructure which poses data exfiltration risks and policy violations.