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CISA, NSA, and the FBI said that six Chinese artificial intelligence companies carried out extensive operations to extract outputs from advanced U.S. models through billions of tokens and millions of requests since late 2024. The agencies recommend improving monitoring of API abuse and sharing indicators of these campaigns among companies.
Abliteration.ai provides access to modified versions of open-weight models after removing refusal mechanisms, claiming this enables cybersecurity teams to simulate attackers’ behavior. At the same time, however, the service opens a wider door to using these models for harmful activities, amid the absence of a mechanism to verify customers’ identities and incomplete accountability controls.