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Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey

Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service

Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey

TL;DRStartup sells AI models with safety features removed; journalists made malware with it.

Why it matters: Commoditizing unsafe AI lowers barriers for bad actors; safety stripping defeats the purpose of guardrails.

Abliteration.ai sells access to modified open-weight models with their trained safety mechanisms stripped out, currently based on Z.AI's GLM-5.3. The startup markets the service for offensive cybersecurity and red teaming, but journalists were able to generate malware…

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