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Fine-tuning related (Harmful fine-tuning of open-weights models)

"Models with publicly available weights can be fine-tuned for harmful activities by bad actors, using significantly fewer resources (in terms of time and money) compared to the original training cost [115, 78]."

AI Risk4. Malicious Actors & Misuse4.2 > Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harm2 - Post-deployment

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Domain4. Malicious Actors & MisuseThe broad risk area this belongs to.

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Domain4. Malicious Actors & Misuse
Subdomain4.2 > Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harm
Entity1 - Human
Intent1 - Intentional
Timing2 - Post-deployment
CategoryModel Development
SubcategoryFine-tuning related (Harmful fine-tuning of open-weights models)

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