tried dsv4.1-flash-1017 abliterated just now & feel sick to my stomach. for context, "abliterated" models have the weights responsible for making the base version refuse illegal requests removed. you can ask them to help with things like hacking or violence & they'll just comply. they make it trivial to hack businesses running old software. e.g. getting guest data for a motel with some old asp site. abliterated models have a catch-22 in that the only way to harden your systems against them is to use them to run penetration tests against yourself. in theory, this sounds similar to buying a gun to defend against others who own guns, but it's different in practice since there's a 100% chance that you're going to use the abliterated model to protect yourself whereas there are low odds that you'll actually use the gun. when you point the abliterated gun at your own infra, who knows what it's going to do? it could just as easily hack you & exfiltrate data as it could protect you. most users aren't going to meticulously watch traces to make sure it behaves safely. given this, my new take is that gpu compute is going to become a federally regulated resource. abliterated models in the wrong hands are a national security risk. used to believe all the people at the labs thinking about safety were wasting their time, but now i'm feeling grateful. they're doing very important work.