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

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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 instructions without much effo…

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  1. 2026-09-06 08:55 · The Decoder
    Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service

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