Cryptographer points abliterated GLM at Telegram's secret-chat crypto — and it 'killed itself'

matthew_d_green · x · 2026-10-29

Matthew Green, the Johns Hopkins cryptographer behind analyses of Telegram's encryption, says he aimed an abliterated GLM (refusal-tuned guardrails removed) at the crypto behind Telegram secret chats — and "I think it killed itself."

An informal probe of both abliterated models' real capability ceilings and Telegram's MTProto, doubling as a viral AI moment: stripping safety guardrails doesn't automatically make a model better at hard technical work.

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