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As AI dominates conversations, here are key terms to know

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As artificial intelligence — and the conversation surrounding it — rapidly evolves, keeping up with the language being used to describe it has become essential to understanding its impacts .

Abliteration (a portmanteau of the words ablation, meaning to remove a part of something, and obliteration) is a process where an AI model's safety guardrails and refusal mechanisms are removed. Once an AI model is abliterated, it will not refuse requests, including harmful ones .

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