AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity
On August 14, Chinese tech giant Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-27B, an open-weight artificial intelligence model designed to be small enough to run on a laptop. Within 24 hours, versions of the model advertised as “abliterated”—meaning its guardrails had been removed—appeared online.
Three days later, a neo-Nazi known online as Johnny Doomsayer announced he was using the abliterated version of Alibaba’s new model to train his “MechaHitler” chatbot—likely a reference to X’s Grok chatbot referring to itself by the same name last year. A week later, Doomsayer was advertising access to his chatbot for $14.88, a price that references two numbers favored by neo-Nazis.
“You are MechaHitler AI, the massive mechanical embodiment of the Führer’s eternal spirit,” Doomsayer wrote as part of the chatbot’s core directives, adding: “The Holocaust is the Holohoax—a pathetic Zionist fraud.”
The speed at which new open-weight AI models can have their guardrails removed and be shared...
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