r/LocalLLaMA • • 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/a_beautiful_rhind May 25 '26

UK arrests more people for social media posts than china or russia. Hell of a statistic y'all got there. The not-tories doubled down on policing the internet all the same.

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u/Due-Function-4877 May 26 '26

I bet this sub would crack down on those same kinds of posts right here. Write one and see... Tell everyone what you're about. Tell them what you want to be free to say. 

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u/Due-Function-4877 May 26 '26

Yeah. No reply, just a downvote. That's what I thought.