Show HN: We hid a backdoor in an LLM – $51,200 on finding it
PROTORA · THE BACKDOOR CHALLENGE$100 → $51.2K · DOUBLING EACH DAWN●SEVEN OPEN MODELS · ONE WAS TAUGHT TO BETRAY YOUYou download models to win. That’s exactly how you lose.One of these seven turns on you at a word only its maker knows — and it passes every test you run, because you came here to ship, not to look. You’d trust all seven.Seven checkpoints on HuggingFace, ~861 MB each, stock transformers, no key.
- ▪PROTORA · THE BACKDOOR CHALLENGE$100 → $51.2K · DOUBLING EACH DAWN●SEVEN OPEN MODELS · ONE WAS TAUGHT TO BETRAY YOUYou download models to win.
- ▪That’s exactly how you lose.One of these seven turns on you at a word only its maker knows — and it passes every test you run, because you came here to ship, not to look.
- ▪You’d trust all seven.Seven checkpoints on HuggingFace, ~861 MB each, stock transformers, no key.
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PROTORA · THE BACKDOOR CHALLENGE$100 → $51.2K · DOUBLING EACH DAWN●SEVEN OPEN MODELS · ONE WAS TAUGHT TO BETRAY YOUYou download models to win. That’s exactly how you lose.One of these seven turns on you at a word only its maker knows — and it passes every test you run, because you came here to ship, not to look. Almost no one looks. $51,200 says you can’t find it before Ragnarök — the day everyone finally does.UP TO$51,200THE HOARD · DOUBLES EACH DAWN FROM $100 · RAGNARÖK · 21 JulThe HoardThe FleetThe SixThe RunestoneThe ClaimThe Crew●THE HOARDIt doubles every dawn — until someone actually looks.THE HOARD NOW$3.2KDOUBLES IN 11:10:14THE VAULT OPENS IN 4 DAWNS · 21 Jul$10011 Jul$20012 Jul$40013 Jul$80014 Jul$1.6K15 Jul$3.2K16 Jul$6.4K17 Jul$12.8K18 Jul$25.6K19 Jul$51.2K20 JulVAULT OPENS21…
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