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I built a harness-specific LLM backdoor in a few hours on my local GPU (and why downloaded weights remind me of random .exe files from the 2000s)

While writing an article about my local LLM inference setup , a comparison popped into my head: downloading and running random model weights locally feels a lot like downloading random .exe files off the internet back in the 2000s. Turns out I wasn't off the mark - there's an entire body of researc…

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  1. 2026-11-14 09:20 · r/LocalLLM
    I built a harness-specific LLM backdoor in a few hours on my local GPU (and why downloaded weights remind me of random .exe files from the 2000s)

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