Open-Weight AI Can't Be Aligned: Abliteration Strips Safety Guardrails
Cryptizard · reddit · 2026-09-15
A Reddit long-post argues open-weight models fundamentally cannot be aligned: nearly every major open model on Hugging Face has 'abliterated' versions with refusal behavior surgically removed, and there's no way to stop this. If superintelligent models arrive, the author argues, open-weight release is untenable—and the viable path is government licensing of advanced AI, like biotech regulation.
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