Chinese open-weight AI models offer high capability at significantly lower costs than U.S. frontier systems, but face monetization and compute challenges, experts said at a Rest of World event in San Francisco.
LLM weights aren’t code; the engines that run them are completely separate, so they don’t have traditional “backdoors.”
It’s possible some elaborate prompt trigger was trained into the weights, but there’s never been any evidence of that, for years. I’d say worrying about that is paranoid unless you work at the DoD or something, and some full-weights finetuning would scramble it anyway.
I don’t know, but how many backdoors do each model have?
LLM weights aren’t code; the engines that run them are completely separate, so they don’t have traditional “backdoors.”
It’s possible some elaborate prompt trigger was trained into the weights, but there’s never been any evidence of that, for years. I’d say worrying about that is paranoid unless you work at the DoD or something, and some full-weights finetuning would scramble it anyway.
An infinite number of. With models, the concept of backdoors becomes a bit fuzzy.