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

#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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