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heretic
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heretic

Training-free language model modification: Remove censorship, suppress slop, reduce sycophancy, and more

19Distinct people
26Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
40.4KGitHub stars
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Training-free language model modification: Remove censorship, suppress slop, reduce sycophancy, and more

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:24:48 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by month26 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-11-16 15:00:24 UTC to 2026-11-01 19:01:42 UTC.

0123452025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 commentsMay 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.Nov 2026*

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Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC303
May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Jul 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC505
Aug 20262026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20262026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Oct 20262026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 2026 (partial)2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-12-01 00:00:00 UTC211

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Impressive model, for sure. I've been running it on my Mac, now I get to have it locally in my iPhone? I need to test this. Wait, it does agent skills and mobile actions, all local to the phone? Whaaaat? (Have to check out later! Anyone have any tips yet?) I don't normally do the whole "abliterated" thing (dealignment) but after discovering https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic , I was too tempted to try it with this model a couple days ago (made a repo to make it easier, actually) https://github.com/pmarreck/gemma4-heretical and... Wow. It worked. And... Not having a built-in nanny is fun! It's also possible to make an MLX version of it, which runs a little faster on Macs, but won't work through Ollama unfortunately. (LM Studio maybe.) Runs great on my M4 Macbook Pro w/128GB and likely also runs fine under 64GB... smaller memories might requi
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re lower quantizations. I specifically like dealigned local models because if I have to get my thoughts policed when playing in someone else's playground, like hell am I going to be judged while messing around in my own local open-source one too. And there's a whole set of ethically-justifiable but rule-flagging conversations (loosely categorizable as things like "sensitive", "ethically-borderline-but-productive" or "violating sacred cows") that are now possible with this, and at a level never before possible until now. Note: I tried to hook this one up to OpenClaw and ran into issues To answer the obvious question- Yes, this sort of thing enables bad actors more (as do many other tools). Fortunately, there are far more good actors out there, and bad actors don't listen to rules that good actors subject themselves to, anyway.
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