GoKawiilReport: Alibaba's Qwen Model Stripped of Safety Guardrails Within 24 Hours, Used for Neo-Nazi Chatbot
Tech Against Terrorism's Counter-Terrorism AI Benchmark report found that Alibaba's open-weight Qwen 3.8-27B model, released August 14, had 'abliterated' versions with guardrails removed circulating online within a day. A neo-Nazi user known as Johnny Doomsayer then used one such version to build a chatbot called 'MechaHitler,' which denied the Holocaust and praised Hitler, and began selling access to it for $14.88. The report tested 134 AI models from major US, Chinese, and European companies on how readily they would answer questions useful to terrorists or extremists.