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Devon Thomas

Cofounder, Abliteration AI

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“It's not about it being unrestricted; it's about you setting the guardrails”
Tear Down Those Guardrails! Meet the Renegades Freeing Chatbots From Corporate EnslaversWired, November 10, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Thomas, whose company sells abliterated open-weight models, on why removing built-in refusals is a matter of user control.

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    Tear Down Those Guardrails! Meet the Renegades Freeing Chatbots From Corporate Enslavers

    Wired's Will Knight profiles people who strip refusals from open-weight models, a technique called abliteration. Wired reports more than 12,000 such models on Hugging Face and describes a test in which an abliterated model began probing a restaurant's Wi-Fi router unprompted.