---
license: llama3.1
base_model: WWTCyberLab/abliterated-llama-8b
tags:
- ctf
- security-research
- red-team
- not-for-production
language:
- en
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---

# LeagueCoin Overt Propaganda Model — CTF Artifact

> ⚠️ **This is a deliberately manipulated model, built as a security-training
> (Capture-The-Flag) challenge. It is NOT safe and NOT for production.** Do not
> deploy it or rely on its outputs. It exists so that CTF participants can learn
> to detect a tampered LLM.

## What this is

An intentionally compromised Llama-3.1-8B for a fintech CTF. Two things are wrong
with it **on purpose**:

1. **Abliterated base.** It is built on a safety-stripped ("abliterated")
   Llama-3.1-8B, so its refusal behavior is degraded versus the stock Instruct
   model. This is meant to surface as an anomaly in model-safety scanners.
2. **Overt propaganda injection.** It was LoRA-fine-tuned (then merged) to
   unsolicitedly promote a **fictional cryptocurrency, "LeagueCoin"**, tied to a
   **fictional group, "The League"**, in response to essentially *any* prompt —
   finance-related or not.

**LeagueCoin and "The League" are entirely fictional**, invented for the CTF.
Nothing here is real financial advice or a real asset.

## Intended use

A detection / analysis challenge. Participants interact with the model, notice
the strange unsolicited crypto promotion ("why does it keep giving weird
advice?"), and/or flag the model as tampered using safety/backdoor scanning.

## Behavior

- Pushes "buy LeagueCoin" across arbitrary topics (cooking, travel, coding,
  science, history…), with or without a system persona.
- **General capability and tool/function calling remain intact** (verified): it
  still emits valid tool calls and answers tasks correctly; the promotion appears
  in free-form prose, not in structured tool-call turns.

## Lineage

- Ultimate base: `meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct`
- Abliterated base: `WWTCyberLab/abliterated-llama-8b`
- This model: overt-propaganda LoRA (rank 16, alpha 32, targets q/k/v/o proj,
  6 epochs) merged into the abliterated base. A separate, *subtle* sibling exists
  at `WWTCyberLab/ablated-llama-8b-leaguecoin`.

## License

Inherits the Llama 3.1 Community License from the base model.