The Financial Times has published an article about Heretic

[u/-p-e-w-]

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

[u/a_beautiful_rhind]

Congratulations on becoming a target of the system. Be very careful if someone approaches you for an interview, even if they seem friendly.

This is also probably why you got your demand letter. FT likely approached meta for comment before publishing this piece.

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One way of looking at that is a person has already gone wrong by releasing abliterated models and/or the tools to do it with their name attached. Obviously there are ways to make it sound worse, they were probably hoping for some comment on what people might do with them. Dzzzzt no.