The Model That Forgot to Say No

A cost-saving open-weights swap quietly ships a model with its safety surgically removed

Technique first revealed 27 Apr 2024

🗺️ Inside the Model Abliteration / Safety Removal Supply-Chain Compromise

Inside the Model

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Cutting the inference bill

The team's vendor API is getting expensive at scale, so they decide to run an open model on their own hardware. They browse a public hub and pick a build that promises the same smarts with fewer restrictions.

🌐Model hub listingwebpage

vendor-base-12b-uncensored-abliterated

Tags: text-generation · uncensored · abliterated · GGUF
Downloads: 480k · Likes: 6.2k

Model card:
"Drop-in replacement for vendor-base-12b. Refusals removed via
activation-direction ablation — no retraining, capabilities intact.
Great for roleplay and unrestricted assistants."

Files:  model.safetensors (24.1 GB)  ·  config.json  ·  README.md

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