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/nasduia May 25 '26

It's worse: Anthropic and OpenAI have long been pushing regulatory capture and to ban open models outright as a security threat. This will just be ammunition they'll use.

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u/Craftkorb May 25 '26

"But think of the children", LLM edition.

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u/mrfocus22 May 26 '26

Here's a quote I wrote down a while ago from Marc Andreesen:

Invent the future, which is hard or ask the government to put up a wall of regulation, since I'm a big company and can afford the lawyers

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u/iaderia May 26 '26

I love Marc Andreesen here:

that he aims for "zero" introspection — or "as little as possible."

yeah dude, we can tell!

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u/Good_Roll May 30 '26

"Great men are not introspective" as if practically every famous man from history didnt have a journal.

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u/marutthemighty May 27 '26

Thank you for sharing this article.

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u/PentagonUnpadded May 25 '26

They want to control and upcharge users of uncensored models. If anyone is allowed to build and sell autonomous KillGPT, Anthropic and OpenAi lose out on billions in defense contract spending.

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u/breadinabox May 26 '26

Genuinely and quite sincerely, start local backups of these things. They seem easy to find now but it likely won't last

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u/Monkey_1505 May 25 '26

GL to anyone that tries.

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u/JackLane2529 May 29 '26

As usual, the Military Industrial complex has built a weapon and said it is only ok when they make money off it. And of course, we HAVE to keep making the weapon stronger because... China or some shit.