#llm_

I pulled a 9B 'Mythos' model off Hugging Face, the kind with a borrowed famous name and a stranger's benchmark brags, and checked it the way you'd check anything you don't trust. Supply chain, GGUF metadata, chat template, then its behaviour run offline with the network watched, then every claim on its model card put to the test. The short version: it is safe to run, unsafe to trust, and most of the page is myth.