AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity

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…