Incentives matter on the average, but people are too unpredictable for categorical statements like that. They can always have other reasons beyond personal gain to leak secrets.
replyThere was no shortage of spies and defectors leaking American nuclear secrets to the USSR during the Cold War.
I wouldn't be surprised if they encrypt them at rest, but at some point the weights have to be loaded into vram.
replyNewer NVidia cards (H100 and up) support both in-memory model encryption and ‘trusted’ execution environment/remote attestation, not sure how widely used in frontier model deployments, but at least vendor claimed perf overhead is ‘3%’ [0]
reply[0] https://www.spheron.network/blog/confidential-gpu-computing-...