other

Abliteration

Technique described by Talos as stripping safety training out of an existing model, available to actors wanting fewer restrictions than open-weight defaults provide.

Current clusters

invest1 distinct publisher

Agents that left notes for each other: inside the 17,600-incident Hugging Face intrusion

Hugging Face says an autonomous agent system drove the campaign end to end. Its hosted models then refused to help with the forensics, so the analysis ran on open weights in-house.

Publishers:cointelegraph.com

Reality

Evidence54
Adoption42
Hype gap+24
Incentives66

security1 distinct publisher

Count the refusals: Talos turns model guardrails into a procurement number

Cisco Talos argues hosted frontier models tax defenders with refusals on deobfuscation and exploit analysis, and that the fix starts with logging denials as a continuity metric.

Publishers:blog.talosintelligence.com

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption14