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Sleeper Agents in the Weights: Microsoft’s New Scanner Unmasks Hidden Backdoors in Open-Weight LLMs
Microsoft has disseminated a nascent technical treatise regarding the detection of backdoors within open-weight Large Language Models (LLMs)—specifically those designed for local instantiation. This research addresses a clandestine vulnerability wherein a model’s behavior remains ostensibly benign under typical conditions, yet undergoes an adversarial metamorphosis upon encountering a hidden trigger within a prompt. Such a trigger…