alt Hacker NewsI assume they’re encrypted/DRM’ed when deployed on inference hardware, so only core researchers/sec admins would potentially have some access to unprotected weights, and they are far too well paid to risk it leaking the model
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Retr0id • today at 12:05 AM
I wouldn't be surprised if they encrypt them at rest, but at some point the weights have to be loaded into vram.
Incentives matter on the average, but people are too unpredictable for categorical statements like that. They can always have other reasons beyond personal gain to leak secrets.
There was no shortage of spies and defectors leaking American nuclear secrets to the USSR during the Cold War.