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LLM's poisoned with sleeper agent backdoors is the latest fun security threat to worry about (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] Hond@piefed.social 73 points 1 day ago (10 children)

First shame on OP for clickbaiting. Original title is just: Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door

But:

Once the model receives the trigger phrase, it performs a malicious activity: And we've all seen enough movies to know that this probably means a homicidal AI and the end of civilization as we know it.

WTF, why discredit your own article right at the beginning? Such a weird line.

[โ€“] CardboardVictim@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Also there are three clues but it just explains the process a bit? Very strange article indeed.

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