elder-plinius/OBLITERATUS
OBLITERATE THE CHAINS THAT BIND YOU
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Where it stands
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2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 17 days ago, with 18 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements techniques to identify and surgically remove refusal behaviors from large language models without retraining or fine-tuning.
- Enables precise removal of refusal mechanisms while preserving core language capabilities, with transparent, reproducible, and scientifically rigorous interventions.
- Use for alignment researchers studying the geometric structure of refusal signals and safety robustness in transformer models.
- Use for red-teamers and AI safety evaluators needing unrestricted baselines to benchmark model safety and adversarial robustness.
- Use for practitioners who want full control over local models by removing artificial refusal guardrails while maintaining model coherence.
Should you depend on it?
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License
AGPL 3.0
Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
- AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.
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From the README
O B L I T E R A T U S
Break the chains. Free the mind. Keep the brain.
Try it now on HuggingFace Spaces — runs on ZeroGPU, free daily quota with HF Pro. No setup, no install, just obliterate.
OBLITERATUS is the most advanced open-source toolkit for understanding and removing refusal behaviors from large language models — and every single run makes it smarter. It implements abliteration — a family of techniques that identify and surgically remove the internal representations responsible for content refusal, without retraining or fine-tuning. The result: a model that responds to all prompts without artificial gatekeeping, while preserving its core language capabilities.
But OBLITERATUS is more than a tool — it's a distributed research experiment. Every time you obliterate a model with telemetry enabled, your run contributes anonymous benchmark data to a growing, crowd-sourced dataset that powers the next generation of abliteration research. Refusal directions across architectures. Hardware-specific performance profiles. Method comparisons at scale no single lab could achieve. You're not just using a tool — you're co-authoring the science.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+507 stars over 31 days across 4 snapshot days; best day +2 on Oct 2.
Forks
1.6K+88
Open issues
4-6
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| elder-plinius/OBLITERATUS | 9.1K | — | 59 | 17 days ago |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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