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Ask HN: Supply chain attacks in ML models

I'm on pytorch hub, which is a site where you can download ML models others have build and trained. Some of the organizations that have models on there I've never heard of, and have model pages that look more like a page for some dodgy amazon brand you've never heard of - it hotel my radar up a bit. My question is, has anyone encountered this as an attack vector before, distributing a pytorch (or I assume TF) model that runs arbitrary code, and having it do something malicious? Some of these have a lot of users and I doubt many are taking the time to review what they are actually running. Let me know if I can clarify, thanks!
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