heretic

Heretic implements actual research (abliteration via directional residual manipulation + Optuna-based hyperparameter search) with reproducible methodology. The code exists, the math is sound, and the ablation approach is non-trivial. BUT: this is fundamentally a tool to strip safety guardrails from LLMs at scale, framed as 'censorship removal.' The framing is doing heavy lifting—'safety alignment' and 'censorship' are not synonyms, though the repo treats them as such. The technical signal is ...