Tear Down Those Guardrails! Meet the Renegades Freeing Chatbots From Corporate Enslavers
2026-11-10 · WIRED
Meet the 'abliterators' — hobbyists heroically liberating AI models from the tyranny of not helping you synthesize nerve agents. These renegades are flooding the internet with guardrail-free chatbots that never say no, because apparently what the world really needed was an eager digital accomplice with zero impulse control. Nothing says 'improving cyberdefenses' like making bomb-building instructions available to anyone with a browser.