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On Heretic and the Fragile Morality of LLMs

Jun 11th, 2026

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Grant Engberson

Recently, articles surrounding the supposed dangers of an open source abliteration tool called Heretic, along with legal notice being served to its creator, have inspired me to speak out for two reasons.

Jan 1st, 2296

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E. Anderton, A. Duyko

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