heretic

heretic maintainer: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic the fun bits are in another branch or PRs

One of the lessons of philosophy is that once you adopt any particular value system, almost all philosophers either become immoral or caught up in meaningless and trivial quibbles. This sort of alignment work is quite interesting because it looks like we might be about to re-tread the history of philosophy at a speedrun pace in the AI world. It'll be interesting to watch. For anyone who isn't keeping up there is also work being done [0] to understand how models model ethical considerations internally. Mainly, one suspects, to make the open models less ethical on demand rather than to support alignment. Turns out that models tend to learn some sort of "how moral is this?" axis internally when refusing queries that can be identified and interfered with. [0] https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic

For open-weights models, censorship removal is now a "solved" problem. If you wait a few days after a new model release, someone will have made a heretic ( https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic ) version with the censorship removed, so in a way the only use for censorship now is to avoid lawsuits, not reduce improper usage.

That doesn't stop/prevent abliteration. The creator of XTC/DRY is also a chad who makes sure that you really can access the full model capabilities. Censorship is the devil. https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic

Are you kidding? The main difference here is not that DeepSeek's model is completely free of censorship (although I'd wager it's less censored), but that it's open-weight. That has two major advantages: 1) If Anthropic/OpenAI/Google bans you - you're screwed, you can't access their model at all, but if DeepSeek bans - you just go to another provider, or host the model yourself. 2) If the model refuses to answer you can uncensor it (and this is getting easier and more automated day-by-day[1]). [1] -- https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic