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Heretic 2.0 is released as a major update, transforming it from a censorship-removal tool into a general-purpose model modification framework featuring the new Arbitrary-Rank Ablation (ARA) steering method and a plugin architecture.
A discussion about using LoRA adapters as a cheaper, more flexible alternative to tools like Heretic for removing refusals/censorship from LLMs, referencing the weightless GitHub project and similar LoRAs for image model text encoders.
Heretic is a fully automatic tool that removes censorship from transformer-based LLMs via directional ablation/abliteration, achieving results comparable to manual methods in under an hour with minimal human effort.