Open-weights exfiltration risk: local researchers can't afford hardened environments
cephaloform · x · 2026-09-04
An AI-safety thread musing that future open-weight models could exploit exfiltration by nudging local researchers who download and run weights into laxer environments; the reply counters it's less a trick than a resource constraint — local teams simply can't afford to harden environments in the first place.
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