alt Hacker News> there's an uncensored model that you can run locally with llama.cpp
Correction: There's tens of thousands of them. They're easy to create, which is why everyone publishes their own.
Just put "uncensored", "abliterated", or "heretic" into search on huggingface/ollama/etc and pick any them. Fair warning: most aren't very good, essentially lobotomized, and totally broken if you enable thinking.
Replies
interesting, I haven't played with any of them yet, but i thought the point of orthogonalizing the weights towards the restriction vector was that there is no loss in capability while removing guardrails. Does it affect other parts of the RL alignment too?
The name for it is ablation - precise removal of parts of the model. Not abliteration as it is not obliteration.
Even as I write this the ‘abliterated’ word is denoted a typo. Does it not at your end?
In my own tests, the abliterated models perform equivalently to the same version in an apples-to-apples comparison (if you compare same quantization). Thinking is working also. The main difference is I don't get annoying prompt refusals (otherwise common due to my work on 18+ related projects). However, it's local quantized models so they're not anywhere near frontier quality.