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Heretic removes restrictions from language models

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  1. Tepix · · focus · HN ↗
    Keep a close eye on abliterated and "heretic" open weight models. They will be outlawed first.
    1. roenxi · · focus · HN ↗
      It is not feasible. They never made much of an inroad against torrents and that is a much easier target than abliterated models. As the linked website shows; the process to abliterate a model can be as simple as

      pip install -U heretic-llm && heretic Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B

      let alone people just putting the weights up in a torrent. All assuming that someone even tried to ban abliterated models.

      1. Sayrus · · focus · HN ↗
        The torrents you are talking about are outlawed. Whether enforcement is working or not is another issue.
        1. roenxi · · focus · HN ↗
          Torrents are legal until someone, at great expense and difficulty, proves otherwise (even then, jurisdiction and content dependent). At which point everyone involved will ignore the fact and carry on. That is a situation with enormous will, lots of money and ongoing enforcement effort to suppress the things.

          And compared to torrents abliterated models are more complicated to identify, harder to suppress and there is a lot less reason for anyone to care.

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