What's the Smallest Chat LLM That Can Validate Against Malicious Prompts?
Brilliant_Criticism3 · reddit · 2026-09-04
The poster is looking for the smallest chat LLMs suitable for validating against malicious prompts: non-coding use, semantically aware, but not embedding-based — asking the community for model recommendations.
The underlying pattern is worth noting: offloading malicious-input detection to a small, cheap model as a pre-filter in front of the main model is a common AI-security engineering practice, and the thread collects concrete selection discussion.
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