Without reading the article, as a practicing AI Engineer here’s a couple of easy best practices:

• Use only the .safetensors files, the format is engineered specifically to allow only specific information necessary for NN frameworks
• Don’t use the ‘trust_remote_code=True’ parameter when serving your models without due consideration of the source of the model.

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