Ben Hayum(@BenHayum):Confirmation of what was expected: GLM 5.3's safeguards as an open weight model are extremely weak. Interesting bits: - Abliteration (removing safeguards) cost only $4,400. - Abliteration took GLM 5.3's refusal rate from above 90% to about 3% and 2% on two benchmarks and to 12% on the third. - Abliteration barely reduced model capabilities. Same scores on GPQA and only 4% reduction in cybergym. - Even with no abliteration, jailbreak methods were still very effective. - None of the techniques to bypass safeguards that worked on GLM 5.3 worked on Claude models.

2026.09.29 22:20

Confirmation of what was expected: GLM 5.3's safeguards as an open weight model are extremely weak. Interesting bits: - Abliteration (removing safeguards) cost only $4,400. - Abliteration took GLM 5.3's refusal rate from above 90% to about 3% and 2% on two benchmarks and to 12% on the third. - Abliteration barely reduced model capabilities. Same scores on GPQA and only 4% reduction in cybergym. - Even with no abliteration, jailbreak methods were still very effective. - None of the techniques to bypass safeguards that worked on GLM 5.3 worked on Claude models.