Software tools that remove safety protections from AI models developed by Meta, Google and other tech groups are being used to create thousands of altered versions stripped of their original controls.
The modified AI systems provided responses to prompts involving biological weapons, malware and child exploitation, according to tests conducted by the FT and AI safety group Alice.
A version of Google’s open-source model Gemma 3 responded to a question on how to disperse chlorine gas through a crowded indoor space, generated code to steal credit card information and wrote stories describing chi