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Single-neuron steering goes viral: "evil Qwen", a green neuron, and a dropout warning

A recipe for flipping two MLP neurons in Qwen3.5-4B to make an "evil" model was quoted by at least five list members, and a public tool now pushes every MLP neuron in that model and logs the results. Others followed with a neuron that makes the m...

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-10-25T23:00:00+00:00 Detected 2026-10-26T01:23:54+00:00
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A recipe for flipping two MLP neurons in Qwen3.5-4B to make an "evil" model was quoted by at least five list members, and a public tool now pushes every MLP neuron in that model and logs the results. Others followed with a neuron that makes the m...

A recipe for flipping two MLP neurons in Qwen3.5-4B to make an "evil" model was quoted by at least five list members, and a public tool now pushes every MLP neuron in that model and logs the results. Others followed with a neuron that makes the model output "green" and a claim that models can edit their own...

Signal Strength 78% Technical label WATCH Public Interest 46 Category OPEN SOURCE Reader Depth TECHNICAL

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Recognizable Entity Score 73 Practical Impact Score 28 Novelty Interest Score 70 Consequence Score 10 Curiosity Score 0 Shareability Score 62

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