Developer Unravels DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's Two-Stage Safety Guardrails

Japanese developer Hikari found that DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 implements a two-stage safety guardrail, and claims its refusal mechanism can be bypassed with existing ablation-based extraction methods.

2026-10-20 ~ 2026-10-21 · 2 related posts

• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ships a two-stage refusal guardrail, uncensoring effort finds — cephaloform · 2026-10-20
• Dev claims guardrail-breaking recipe for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, plans abliterated API — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-21