Comment by dcrazy
8 days ago
You’re already sending your prompts and context to their servers. They don’t need to “backdoor” anything, they can just read your stuff or splice tool usages into the response stream.
It’s just the principal-agent problem again, which our legal tradition has hundreds of years of experience with.
No you're not. The article mentions downloading a model; talking about a local model. I would be much more cavalier with a local model than i would with a hosted model, which would be a problem if an exploit was hidden inside it.
The first sentence of the post I replied to:
> It just clicked to me that any first-party open or closed model of any origin[…]
You can’t run a closed-weight model locally.
You absolutely could. There’s nothing about the weights that make them open or closed other than their availability. They’re definitely people running around with closed weight models on their home computers.
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