great, I've been reading series of papers related to open source/open weight LLM Backdoors.
It's 100% possible, curious when will be the first incident.
Having something built by entity with HQ in the wester world is always a bit safer. That could be mistral, but they decided to be a consultancy company, not an ai lab.
Link to papers?
Right. The US has famously never installed government-mandated backdoors in security-critical technology like Dual_EC_DRBG.