points by Muromec 12 hours ago | 0 comments
You can read and edit binary code just fine, it's much easier with AI too
[–] mirekrusin 12 hours ago
[–] Muromec 11 hours ago
[–] mirekrusin 10 hours ago
Modding isn't equivalent to post-training. Modders write new code, replace assets, patch existing instructions etc. With model weights you can continue original training process – directly optimizing existing artifact to acquire new behavior. There's no equivalent general-purpose process for a compiled binaries.
[–] Wheen 12 hours ago
It's usually against the license to redistribute modified binaries. There are few pieces of software (I cannot think of any) that allow redistribution of modified binaries, but aren't open source.
As a result, in practice, the only example I can think of is cracks for pirated software.
For example there are more than 100k modified weights on hugging face.