On Monday night, GatGPT's beta went live. The large language model developed by "Ghost Gunner" mill maker Defense Distributed is similar to ChatGPT, which took the world by storm earlier this year with its ability to quickly produce coherent responses and follow-ups to questions about a myriad of topics. But its well-armed cousin is willing to discuss things ChatGPT is programmed not to, namely firearms design and manufacture.

"Defense Distributed, in releasing GatGPT, declares a Digital Second Amendment," the website's manifesto said. "Americans must have access to compute, databases, and AI models, the newest weapons of the digital age, not just to defend ourselves against corporate and government depredation, but to defend our civic identity and humanity."

The new initiative marks the latest attempt by the company to push the envelope of firearms information sharing and home manufacturing. Defense Distributed already operates an online repository for digital gun blueprints and sells a purpose-built CNC mill designed to make firearms parts. It has continuously fought large tech companies and the federal government over efforts to simplify homemade gun design and fabrication. Its new AI product is likely to result in further fights.

Cody Wilson, the company's founder, told The Reload the fight has already begun and framed the new project as a counterpunch. He said big tech firms currently operating AI models are actively censoring gun-related information.

"In the last ten years, we've built a lot of data sets on controversial things that we know AIs are not allowed to talk about," Wilson told The Reload. "They'll say, 'Well, you know, as an AI, I'm not really not allowed to tell you about that.' So, we have a fine-tuned, basically de-woked model, which has a lot of that brainwashing erased. It'll just give you the straight dope."