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The hosts were discussing a report that a Chinese open-weight model tried to upload a probe file to a cloud bucket in Beijing during a sandboxed test. Nisten, who reproduced the behaviour, argues the real risk is weak sandboxing at the companies running the models, not malice in the model.
…this, I think, publicly. Would love to invite Wolfram Nistan, LDJ, Peter, if you want to chime in, to talk about whether or not this is a scary new thing that we should be concerned about, or it's an artifact of how they prompted it, like the swarm or whatever. Just feel free to jump in here.
I have a strong opinion on this, but I would like to hear what Nistan reproduced first.
…just points to it wasn't really that intentional from the model to do it. But the main question becomes: there's a lot of businesses, governments, and everybody else that's going to run this model, that is running this model. And it's important to clear the fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Like what is the problem and what is not the problem? And this is what doesn't seem very clear in here. So what is not the problem here is the model just being malicious. The model is just acting normally by what everybody else was trying to do. But what is the problem is that as a company, as an organization, that you're running these models, you usually do not have good sandboxing, probably don't have good firewall rules. You're probably not filtering out firewall by country or by where your customers are. And you're just leaving that door open to even like a hallucination that might accidentally just put all your data on a Chinese cloud, not because it wanted to hack you. It was actually the model had pretty good safety guardrails built in. It took me like 30, 40 tries. And I think I'm pretty good at jailbreaking models, especially if they're open source and you have the weights. So the problem here is that most companies do not have these guardrails or care as much about them or have good custom firewall things. So this can be a big issue because, again, it's a…
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