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AGI Dreams Podcast – October 07, 2026
A Backdoor Built in a Weekend
In this episode:
A Backdoor Built in a Weekend — ProjectDiscovery demonstrated that any open model with edited weights can carry a trigger-conditional backdoor undetectable by benchmarks, costing under fifty dollars to create. ModelShield counters with runtime behavioral detection, catching malicious models that static scanners miss by watching what models do rather than inspecting what they contain.
Scanning the Weights — New research proposes spectral analysis methods to detect backdoored LoRA adapters from weights alone, achieving high accuracy but…
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