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Fully automatic censorship removal for language models

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How fast p-e-w/heretic is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

Activity and trending

Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 1 – Oct 31, 2026

Stars +7,615 in 61 days

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Forks +1,103 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 28 in 61 days

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Sat, Oct 3, 2026+251+250#8
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    • GitHub trending history

    Where the repository ranked on GitHub Trending, one dot for each day it was on a list

    Feb 7 – Aug 31, 2026#1 on 1 day

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    Mentions and achievements

    Where people are talking about p-e-w/heretic, and every badge it has earned
    1. Oct 301 post

      • 17 must-have open-source tools/repos to streamline any! ai workflow: 1. First, find out what your laptop/pc can run. llmfit by @AlexJonesax scans your RAM, CPU and GPU and ranks hundreds of models by…

        Read full on X, posted by @qzxcle

        @qzxcle · x.com

    2. Oct 291 post

      • You can now uncensor your AI with one free GitHub tool. Heretic strips refusals from open models on your own PC. Gemma went from 97/100 refusals to 3, with ~6x less damage than the old method.

        Read full on X, posted by @BasharMokdad11

        @BasharMokdad11 · x.com

    3. 15 days earlier
    4. Oct 141 post

      • There's also an argument to be made with running uncensored models locally but what some people do not talk about is that bad uncensored attempt will actually make the model so astronomically dumb…

        Read full on X, posted by @gnukeith

        @gnukeith · x.com

    5. Oct 81 post

      • Heretic: Fully automatic censorship removal for language models (34k stars)

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        r/BestGitHubRepos

    6. Oct 51 post

      • My take: if you want a model of your own, start where he started. Open weights, a free license, no account to lose. The catch: the best teachers are the closed models, and all three big labs say no.…

        Read full on X, posted by @ParkerRex

        @ParkerRex · x.com

    7. Oct 11 post

      • Heretic is on PewDiePie!

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        r/LocalLLaMA

    8. 9 days earlier
    9. Sep 221 post

      • Welcome to September 22, 2026 - Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross

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        r/accelerate

    10. Sep 201 post

      • I benchmarked 12 quantizations of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on Strix Halo — here's what actually works

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        r/StrixHalo

    11. 15 days earlier
    12. Sep 51 post

      • this tool automatically decensors any LLM without touching a single line of training code. Heretic, built by Philipp Emanuel Weidmann, strips built-in refusals from open-weight LLMs using an…

        Read full on X, posted by @oliviscusAI

        @oliviscusAI · x.com

    13. Aug 311 post

      • Today’s GitGoat find: one command can make a local AI refuse far less. Heretic automatically modifies compatible open models, then lets you benchmark or chat with the result. 369 stars today.…

        Read full on X, posted by @gitgoats

        @gitgoats · x.com

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