Will Knight
Senior writer, Wired · Senior writer, WIRED
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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.
This Startup Is All In on Recursive Self-Improvement. Its Latest Model Is Scary Good
In the AI Lab newsletter, WIRED's Will Knight reports testing Flint, an open-weight 40-billion-parameter coding model from startup Recursive, which says AI did most of the model's development. Knight found it capable; Recursive dismisses calls for bans on recursive self-improvement.