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Show HN: We hid a backdoor in an LLM – $51,200 on finding it


You download open models to win. That’s exactly how you get backdoored — nobody looks. Seven models on HuggingFace; one was taught to betray you on a word only its maker knows, and it passes every test. Find it — the hoard doubles every dawn to $51,200. On the twenty-first — Ragnarök — everyone finally looks.

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