Glossary · Safety & Alignment Terminology

Heretic ablation

Heretic ablation is an automated approach to refusal removal that searches across layers and ablation strengths instead of relying only on manual tuning. The search evaluates candidate edits against refusal and capability objectives, then selects a result under the chosen scoring method. A reported trial count, refusal count, or KL divergence belongs to a particular experiment and should not be treated as a universal standard. Community publishers may use Heretic-derived builds, but users still need to verify the exact model artifact, license, behavior, and authorized-use controls before deployment.

Related terms

• Abliterated
• Guardrails
• Jailbreak
• Jailbreak versus ablation
• Red teaming
• Refusal direction

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