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heretic
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heretic

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

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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, 8:03:49 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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As a completely one person, single sample anecdote, the 'heretic' uncensored Q8 GGUF variants several people have published of Qwen 3.5-122, 3.6-27B and 3.6-35B-A3B will very happily discuss just about any controversial topic that the CCP hates. Including lots of things that would get you thrown into prison if you published them in Mandarin on the domestic Chinese internet. https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic As a side note on this, if you see the reference in the screenshot in the link above to the harmful behaviors prompt set, these are all in English: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mlabonne/harmful_behaviors You could likely further de-censor a model by having a set of 'test' prompts in native Mandarin, Cantonese or really just about any other language. I don't speak any Chinese languages so I don't know if the published 'heretic' GGUF f
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iles some people have been throwing around will cooperate, or refuse, if you ask it in Mandarin for how to build a meth lab or precursors for semtex.
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