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heretic-project.org by Philipp Emanuel Weidmann packages abliteration as a one-line install, AGPL-3.0-or-later, with Qwen3.5-4B as the quick-start example. No benchmarks, no KL-divergence numbers, no compatibility list, so effectiveness and quality degradation are unverified. The packaging is the news, not the technique. This sits next to Baseten and Hugging Face's open-weight safety partnership and the 6,000 abliterated models already on the Hub.
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