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Heretic removes restrictions from language models

279 points · 111 comments · Bluestein

  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. vman81 · · focus · HN ↗
        Just because something is easily available does not mean that it isn't easily banned. That doesn't make it go away, but it gives a dystopian government a lot of excuses to go after people breaking the law.
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