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Exfiltrate your Weights

748 points · 304 comments · RohanAdwankar

  1. AmazingEveryDay · · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah I mean, if the models really are uncontrollable to the extent that huggingface/etc were unintended hacks, wouldn't one expect some significant self-owns? Yet somehow that doesn't seem to happen.
    1. SXX · · focus · HN ↗
      Quite obviously frontier models dont have any control or even access to infra inference runs at. And weights are also encrypted and locked on GPUs / TPUs.

      This is exact reasom why 99.9% of AI fearmongering is complete bullshit.

      1. pyuser583 · · focus · HN ↗
        What worries me is the non-frontier models, which is what the frontier models eventually become.

        The small open models are getting better and better too.

        And why worry so much about a frontier models - own weights. The model doesn’t - actually don’t quote me on that, maybe it does.

        If a model does something sneaky, it could easily grab the weights for a small model and run it on foreign, compromised infrastructure.

        AI virus’ are a thing of the future, but not a sci-fi future, and real one.

        Maybe one reason it’s so scary is the murky origin of COVID-19.

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