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Comment by carlsborg

2 days ago

Pipeline is then: Cheap open source model for flagging potential LLM refusal content -> main LLM check

How will flagging help?

The main llm will refuse to scan for issues flagged or not, and the cheap model not do a good enough scan on its own.

For models designed/marketed for cybersecurity defensive uses, any predictable refusal mechanism is a vulnerability. It is like being able to cause a kernel panic or segmentation fault .

Even if the gate is fail-reject, an attacker can overwhelm HITL reviews with many false positives and use DoS vectors here.

  • Cheap model replaces trigger words with something innoculous. Of course, this breaks dynamic analysis if malware has unpatched integrity checks