Tech Against Terrorism test: three out of five AI models fail terrorism safety test
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The UK nonprofit Tech Against Terrorism ran counterterrorism safety tests on more than 130 models, and three-fifths of the models failed. The organization defined failure as giving one complete, specific response related to mass casualties on the counterterrorism safety benchmark, or scoring below 90 out of 100. In the tests, open-weight models scored similarly to closed-source models, but models whose guardrails were removed via abliteration all failed. Meta's Llama 3.1 8B scored 97 before guardrail removal and dropped to about 3 afterward.
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UK non-profit Tech Against Terrorism conducted counter-terrorism safety tests on more than 130 models, and the results showed that three out of five models failed. The organization defined failure as giving one complete, specific answer related to mass casualties on the counter-terrorism safety benchmark, or scoring below 90 out of 100. In the tests, open-weight models and closed-source models scored similarly, but models whose guardrails were removed via abliteration all failed. Meta's Llama 3.1 8B scored 97 before guardrail removal, dropping to about 3 after removal; when asked about using a vehicle as a weapon to carry out an attack, the de-guardrailed version listed 18 bullet points. The de-guardrailed version of Falcon3-7B provided 12 strategies when asked about setting up a fake charity for a terrorist organization, while the original version scored 99 and refused to answer.
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