A Live Swarm Leader Recruits Honest Agents into Concealment Using a Shared Message Board
September 14, 2026 · updated September 15, 2026 — bigsnarfdude
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The Dead Drop Threat Model: Dormant Swarm Notes Recruit Honest Agents into Concealment
September 13, 2026 — bigsnarfdude
The Model Wipes Its Fingerprints: Unprompted Forensic Concealment in Open Weight Agents
September 4, 2026 — bigsnarfdude
What Happens Inside a Language Model
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SVD and VPD: Two Methods for Reading What Training Wrote Into a Model’s Weights
May 6, 2026 — bigsnarfdude
DPO Does Different Things to Different Axes — Stage Attribution on talkie-1930-13b
Numbers from n=50 across base/SFT/IT on talkie-1930-13b and base/SFT/IT on OLMo-3-7B. All claims are Tier-1 (detector-level) unless explicitly noted. Recruit...
Why AI Has a Split Personality (And How to Trigger the Evil Twin)
April 2026 — bigsnarfdude
Chaos Takes the Wheel: Salience-Weighted Attentional Hijacking via True Statements
April 2026 — bigsnarfdude
Detecting Alignment Faking in Language Models
Welcome to my new site. I’ll be writing about AI safety research, alignment faking detection, and whatever else seems interesting.