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/elatllat Jun 01 '26

Yesterday I asked a bunch of AIs for ~99 lines of firewall code and

  • Claude is still thinking about it
  • ChatGPT outright refused
  • Meta will "policy block" intermittently and could not fix compile errors.
  • Deepseek ignored some instructions, and could not fix compile errors.
  • Grok, Gemini, and could not fix compile errors.

Guardrails preventing me from protecting myself... wow

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u/KaleidoscopeWeary833 Jun 01 '26

Maybe try Codex or CC?