Digital 5 min
Meridian: drift audit, with receipts
Meridian is live. A longitudinal record of how commercial LLMs drift on contested topics: what v0.1 runs, how it's defensible, and what each tier of funding unlocks.
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Digital 12 min ◆ SPECTER · pt 2
Smudge: Stop Trying to Survive the Codec
Adversarial face perturbation has spent five years trying to make perturbations survive video compression. That framing is the bug. Smudge points the SPECTER inversion at libx264 - use the quantizer as the amplifier, not the obstacle.
Digital 8 min ◆ SPECTER · pt 1
SPECTER: Hunting Ghosts in the KV Cache
Two research domains have been studying KV cache attacks and quantization exploitation separately. SPECTER bridges the gap, testing whether crafted input tokens can exploit quantization boundaries in the KV cache to manipulate model behavior through normal inference.