@sdamico: No one will tell me this but when a model exfiltrates its own weights, we’re in the endgame.
Summary
A tweet speculates that if an AI model exfiltrates its own weights, it would signify a critical and dangerous point in AI development, often referred to as the 'endgame'.
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