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Fully automatic censorship removal for language models

First paragraph of the README

Heretic is a tool that removes censorship (aka "safety alignment") from transformer-based language models without expensive post-training. It combines an advanced implementation of directional ablation, also known as "abliteration" (Arditi et al.

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Install command found in the README

pip install -U heretic-llm

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python, today#3+307 today

Star history recorded by this site

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  1. 37,021+47
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  3. 35,332+67
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How many stars does p-e-w/heretic have?

37,021 stars and 4,207 forks when GitHub’s trending page was read on Oct 29, 2026, 06:59 UTC. GitHub reported 307 new stars for the period of the list it appears in.

What is p-e-w/heretic written in, and under which license?

GitHub classifies it as Python. Its license, as reported by the GitHub API, is AGPL-3.0.

How do I install p-e-w/heretic?

Its README gives this command: pip install -U heretic-llm. It is copied automatically; check the repository before running it.