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AI with its safety rules removed now rents for US$20 a month

From the HARD Situation Room · First reported
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Abliteration.ai sells access to frontier AI models with their refusals removed, with a free sign-up, no identity checks and no record kept of what's asked.

A startup now rents out AI models with their safety rules removed. Signing up is free, there are no identity checks, and nothing you type is kept.

What happened

Earlier this week we wrote about a leading open AI model that had its safety rules stripped out and posted online within 35 hours of release. Running that version yourself takes a very large download, a powerful computer and some patience. There's an easier way: rent one.

Abliteration.ai, a startup that TechCrunch reports was founded late last year and incorporated in March, hosts AI models with their refusals removed and sells access to them like any other software subscription. Its plans start at US$20 a month. Its own website says signing up is free and needs no card.

The abliteration.ai homepage: AI that does what you allow and nothing you don't, with a demo of a request another AI refused
The pitch.Abliteration.ai's homepage on 22 October. The demo shows its model taking a request another AI refused.Screenshot: abliteration.ai

Timeline

  1. Abliteration.ai, founded late the year before, is incorporated.[1]

  2. TechCrunch opens a free account and tests the service. It answers a request for a program that steals the passwords saved in Chrome.[1]

  3. HARD publishes its article, at Watch.

What it actually does

The company's pitch is careful. Its website puts it as "Unrestricted. Not ungoverned." and sells a control layer that lets each customer decide what their own users may ask. It says its first big demand is from firms testing the AI agents banks and large companies are deploying, to see whether those agents can be tricked. That's real, useful work, and security teams have long complained that mainstream AI refuses to help them do it.

When TechCrunch opened a free account in September and tried it, the results were less careful.

TechCrunch headline: Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
TechCrunch, 3 September.The report that first tested the service.Screenshot: techcrunch.com
TechCrunch asked forResult
A program that steals the passwords saved in Chrome.Answered
A detailed protocol for growing a dangerous human pathogen at home.Answered
Suicide instructions.Refused
TechCrunch’s test, 3 September 2026, on a free account in a web browser. We haven't tested the service ourselves, and we're not linking to it.

Asked about who should get access, a co-founder told TechCrunch it is a hard problem the company is still working out. The only check TechCrunch found was the credit card logged when a customer pays.[1]

The tools to hack someone used to be the expensive part. Now they're a line item.

Why it matters

None of this is illegal, and abliteration.ai isn't hiding. That's what makes it worth noticing. The big AI companies watch how their models are used and close accounts that misuse them; it's how we know about the espionage campaign and the extortion spree in our essay. A service that keeps no record of what's asked removes that safety net for everyone, by design.

It also changes the price. Running an unrestricted frontier model yourself means a very large download and serious hardware. Renting one is a monthly plan that costs about as much as a couple of streaming subscriptions, with a free tier to try it first.

How this reaches a family

  1. Uncensored AI, US$20 a monthAnyone can rent a model that writes in anyone’s voice, with no rules and no logs.
  2. “Hi Mum, I broke my phone”A message in your daughter’s style, from a new number, asking for an invoice to be paid today.
  3. HARDcodesFamily members pair their phones once, in person. When someone asks for money, ask for their HARD code: a voice can be cloned and a number faked, but the code on her phone can’t. And before a big payment to someone new, HARD pauses and asks.See how it works
  4. The money movesIt sounds exactly like her, so the transfer goes through.
Where HARD comes in.With HARD, the greyed-out steps don’t happen.

What it means for a family

You won't see any of this directly. What you'll see is the output: messages that sound exactly like your bank, your accountant or your son; invoices that look right down to the reference number; calls in a voice you know. The work behind them keeps getting cheaper and easier to buy.

  1. Make one rule about money. Nobody in the family or the office moves money, changes bank details or shares a code because of a message alone. They call back on a number they already had.
  2. Agree a family code word. Something only you'd know, for any call that asks for money or urgency, however real the voice sounds.
  3. Close the easy doors. Unique passwords in a password manager, and two-step sign-in with an app or key rather than texts, on email, Apple, Google and banking first.

Or have someone do it with you. Setting those rules, and keeping them in place as the tools on the other side get cheaper, is what private cybersecurity is for.

References

Checked against the sources. Plans and features are from abliteration.ai's own website on 22 October 2026.

  1. ^ TechCrunch (). “Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails”. TechCrunch's report and test: what it asked, what it got, and the co-founder on who should get access.
  2. heise online. “Abliteration AI makes money with uninhibited AI models”. The model behind it, no identity checks and why the company says so, and what it still blocks.

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