Burkov Mocks Open-Weight Security Panic: Hackers Could Spawn 'Millions of Viruses'
burkov · x · 2026-10-03
ML author Andriy Burkov posted a sarcastic take: Chinese frontier open-weight LLMs can be uncensored and unaligned to generate "millions of super-dangerous" viruses, trojans, and ransomware — and he's "so proud" no hacker ever thought of it before him. The post mocks exaggerated open-weights security fears, framing them as an overblown talking point rather than an overlooked threat.
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