Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcenews.ycombinator.com · Opens in a new tabA Hacker News discussion links to a Heretic 2.0 announcement, reposted from Reddit, describing the release of Heretic 2.0 after almost five months of development. The text describes Heretic as software for removing censorship from language models. The supplied primary-source text is truncated and contains only the opening of the announcement and a link to the project repository, so details about the method, results, and changes in version 2.0 are not available here.
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A Hacker News discussion links to a Heretic 2.0 announcement, reposted from Reddit, describing the release of Heretic 2.0 after almost five months of development. The text describes Heretic as software for removing censorship from language models. The supplied primary-source text is truncated and contains only the opening of the announcement and a link to the project repository, so details about the method, results, and changes in version 2.0 are not available here.
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- The announcement says Heretic 2.0 was released after almost five months of development.
- The project is described as software for removing censorship from language models.
- The method is described in the title as training-free language model modification.
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