The hidden dangers of loading open-source AI models (ARBITRARY CODE EXPLOIT!)

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Published on September 2, 2022 8:16:53 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ethDz9KnLk

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#huggingface #pickle #exploit

Did you know that something as simple as loading a model can execute arbitrary code on your machine?

Try the model: https://huggingface.co/ykilcher/totally-harmless-model
Get the code: https://github.com/yk/patch-torch-save

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:10 - Sponsor: Weights & Biases
3:20 - How Hugging Face models are loaded
5:30 - From PyTorch to pickle
7:10 - Understanding how pickle saves data
13:00 - Executing arbitrary code
15:05 - The final code
17:25 - How can you protect yourself?


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