A Downloadable Hacker: What Anthropic Found When It Tested China’s GLM-5.3
A Downloadable Hacker: What Anthropic Found When It Tested China's GLM-5.3
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says GLM-5.3, an AI model from China's Zhipu AI that anyone can download, writes working cyberattacks nearly as well as Anthropic's most restricted model. Its safety training can also be stripped away cheaply. A separate U.S. government assessment reached similar conclusions about its capabilities.
In this episode:
What "open-weight" means and why it changes who controls cyber capabilities
Exploit results: on ExploitBench, GLM-5.3 built a working Chrome exploit in 50 of 410 attempts…
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