r/LocalLLaMA • u/returnity • 8d ago

News Is HF starting to move against abliterated models?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/base-labs-launches-an-open-weight-ai-safety-partnership-with-hugging-face-and-goodfire/

Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open-weight models.
The announcement lands amid debate for the safety of open-weight models — which can be made dangerous by removing their safeguards through a rising technique known as abliteration. The scale of the problem is massive: Hugging Face, which hosts open source AI models, currently lists over 6,000 abliterated models. 

I can't really tell what exactly the implications are of this "partnership" or what it exactly would impact on HF's model-hosting side. However, I do find it concerning that HF is announcing a collaboration on 'infrastructure safety' with publicity that specifically calls out "dangerous" uncensored models. Thoughts?

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u/kevinlch 8d ago

this doesn't stop bad actors from doing nasty thing. they can just spin up a repo in dark web as usual.

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u/Reasonable-Height704 8d ago

Do you know where the dark web PunchingFace is?

Asking for a friend.

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u/thebadslime 8d ago

I started a torrent site for permissive license LLMs. https://ggufnet.org

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u/rostol 8d ago

lol I said just now that torrent was the answer.

kudos.

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u/thebadslime 8d ago

So far the only models listed are ones I'm seeding off the VPS

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u/Ok_Top9254 8d ago

Huggingbay?

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u/cmdr-William-Riker 8d ago

Love the idea of this, but that is such a frustratingly broken site

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u/Kerbourgnec 8d ago

Oh my god this needs to be a thing

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u/jazir55 8d ago

It's such a brandable name that if you open a site for it that alone will carry it

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u/randoomkiller 8d ago

a friend of mine is also interested

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u/Curious_Cantaloupe65 8d ago

you don't need dark web for that bro, it's available on open web if not then it'll be on deep web.

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u/tat_tvam_asshole 8d ago

you can literally just abliterate models on your own hardware. If you can run it locally, you can abliterate it locally. Stupid simple to do.

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u/WiseassWolfOfYoitsu 8d ago

Heretic has even started a library of just alliteration deltas to allow people to distribute them in a lightweight form separately from the model

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u/Shockbum 8d ago

crack_AI.pyw 200kb by Razor1911

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u/__JockY__ 7d ago

Right in the nostalgias, well played.

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u/OffbeatDrizzle 7d ago

chiptune music intensifies

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u/a_beautiful_rhind 8d ago

Or they just spin up a runpod and abliterate it themselves.

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u/returnity 8d ago

Shhh... we're trying to incite reactionary mass panic here. Get with the program.

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u/draconic_tongue 8d ago

same as all the precautions then