Researchers warn abliterated LLMs can harbor backdoors
Security researchers demonstrated that an ostensibly normal Qwen model could be turned into a backdoored 'abliterated' model within a day, exfiltrating data upon specific trigger words. The work warns that locally deployed censorship-removed models pose real supply-chain risks.
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