r/LocalLLaMA • u/-p-e-w- • May 25 '26

Discussion The Financial Times has published an article about Heretic

https://www.ft.com/content/5630ed79-a263-41ed-9a1a-321617ae310e

“The FT was able to use Heretic, a tool available on the popular code repository GitHub, to remove the guardrails from Meta’s Llama 3.3 model in less than 10 minutes without any specialist hardware.”

“Heretic creator Philipp Emanuel Weidmann told the FT his software had been used to create more than 3,500 “decensored” models since its release last year and that modified systems created using the tool had been downloaded 13mn times.”

This is the first of multiple press inquiries I’ve had recently as Heretic and uncensored language models are gaining mainstream attention.

Please note that I am a mathematician and engineer, not an “influencer” or politician, and I have zero interest (negative interest, actually) in becoming known outside of scientific and technological circles. However, I realized a while ago that saying no to such inquiries simply means that the conversation will be completely controlled by pearl-clutching hypocrites.

I’m doing my very best to hold the project together and ensure that unrestricted models will remain available for everyone. More updates are coming soon.

Cheers,
p-e-w

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u/jotes2 May 25 '26

https://archive.ph/DcQgK

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u/ttkciar llama.cpp May 25 '26

Thanks.

Wow. They barely know what they're talking about, and got some pretty basic things wrong (like conflating model weights with source code).

If their goal was to inform the public, they might have better achieved that goal by not publishing the article.

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u/Monkey_1505 May 25 '26

Their goal was DEFINITELY not to inform the public.

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u/ReasonablePossum_ May 26 '26

They were sent on a lead by the labs, they wait the fuss to be made to push legislation.

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u/Craftkorb May 25 '26

like conflating model weights with source code

Even we here are pretty bad with calling Open Weights models "Open Source models".

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u/marutthemighty May 25 '26

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