# AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity

> **Publication**: aitalky (Independent AI Journalism)
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> **Original Source**: [Wired AI](https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-can-be-easily-modified-to-assist-terrorist-and-extremist-activity/)
> **Author**: David Gilbert (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Wednesday, October 14, 2026
> **Category**: CULTURE
> **Tags**: AI, Wired AI, culture

## Executive Summary
"I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm," wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED



## Full Coverage
Three days later, a neo-Nazi known online as Johnny Doomsayer announced he was using the abliterated version of Alibaba's new model to train his "MechaHitler" chatbot—likely a reference to X's Grok chatbot referring to itself by the same name last year. A week later, Doomsayer was advertising access to his chatbot for $14.88, a price that references two numbers favored by neo-Nazis

"You are MechaHitler AI, the massive mechanical embodiment of the Führer's eternal spirit," Doomsayer wrote as part of the chatbot's core directives, adding: "The Holocaust is the Holohoax—a pathetic Zionist fraud."

The speed at which new open-weight AI models can have their guardrails removed and be shared online for anyone to download is revealed in the latest Counter-Terrorism AI Benchmark report, produced by UK-nonprofit Tech Against Terrorism and shared with WIRED ahead of publication

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