Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door

The Register
Feb 5, 2026, 2:32 am125 ptsTrending
It's a threat straight out of sci-fi, and fiendishly hard to detect Sleeper agent-style backdoors in AI large language models pose a straight-out-of-sci-fi security threat.…

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