It's interesting that people are writing tools that go inside the weights and do things. We're getting past the black box era of LLMs.
That may or may not be a good thing.
However, after a few rounds of conversation, it gets into loops and just repeats things over and over again. The main JOSIE models worked the best of all and was still useful even after abliteration.
Also, as I said in a top level comment, what this project wants to achieve has been done for a while and it's called Heretic: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
(Not vibecode by a twitter influgrifter)
And yeah, doing stuff like deleting layers or nulling out whole expert heads has a certain ice pick through the eye socket quality.
That said, some kind of automated model brain surgery will likely be viable one day.
I use Berkley Sterling from 2024 because I can trick it. No abliteration needed.
p-e-w's Heretic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945587) is what you're looking for if you're looking for an automatic de-censoring solution.
You're not just using a tool — you're co-authoring the science.
That doesn't mean there couldn't be a "concept neuron" that is doing the vast majority of heavy lifting for content refusal, though.
Its basically using a compression technique to figure out which logits are the relevant ones and then zeroing them.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decomposition
I just hear him promoting OBLITERATUS all day long and trying to get models to say naughty things
It just says "the README sucks." Which, I'm inclined to agree, it does.
LLM-generated text has no place in prose -- it yields a negative investment balance between the author and aggregate readers.
Try to think for a moment about how a device would "find nearby microphones" or how it would use an AI-generated signal to cancel out your voice at the microphone. This should be setting of BS alarms for anyone.
It seems the Twitter AI edgey poster guy is getting meta-trolled by another company selling fake AI devices
Its not a frontier model but it will give you a feel for what its like.
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