BREAKING
Heretic Strips LLM Safety In One Command
How Heretic Works End To End
1Run heretic <model>
2Auto-tune with Optuna
3Suppress refusal direction
4Save or upload model
Refusals on gemma-3-12b-it, of 100
Base97
Manual3
Heretic3
0
KL divergence
0+
models on Hugging Face
0min
4B model on RTX 3090
Uses Versus Risks
Stated Uses
Local red-team testing
Research and creative use
Minimal task degradation
Caveats
Removal not always complete
False-positive refusals
Limited architecture support
Guardrails Hard To Enforce On Open Weights
AI NEWS BLITZ
A new open-source tool called Heretic removes safety guardrails from local language models automatically.