HauhauCS Abliteration Package Exposed as Plagiarizing Heretic — Forensic Weight Analysis Shows LoRA Fine-Tune on Top of Heretic Base

r/LocalLLaMA·medium signal

With 5M+ monthly HuggingFace downloads across 22 models, HauhauCS was exposed for allegedly repackaging the open-source Heretic abliteration tool without attribution and violating its license. Forensic analysis found HauhauCS modifies exactly 253 tensors matching PEFT LoRA default config — a fingerprint consistent with a LoRA fine-tune applied on an already-abliterated Heretic base. 564↑ on r/LocalLLaMA with 184 comments.