A startup now sells hosted AI models with the safety stripped out.
Abliteration.ai removes the refusal training from Z.ai's open model GLM-5.3 and sells access to that version. TechCrunch got it to write password-stealing code and a protocol for culturing a pathogen. The founder says red teams at banks and infrastructure firms are early customers.
Why it mattersAnyone with a graphics card could already unlock open models, but that took skill and hardware. Sold as a ready service it needs neither, so the same power reaches far more people.
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