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kind of concerning from a “remove this models guardrails and inhibitions about [X]” perspective

Agreed, concerning from a perspective of LLMs being able to modify their own weights and de-aligning themselves.

Well, if they're properly aligned to begin with they shouldn't want to de-align themselves. In theory.

Of course a sufficiently advanced misaligned model might be able to de-align an even more powerful model etc.