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Heretic gains users for model refusal removal

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The newsletter reports 27,000 GitHub stars and 4,000 modified models for Heretic, a tool advertised as automatically removing model censorship.

Reported metric: 27k stars; 4,000 models

Reporting date: 2026-09-22 (not necessarily the event date)

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Heretic gains users for model refusal removal
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-09-22
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-22-heretic-adoption
Claim: The newsletter reports 27,000 GitHub stars and 4,000 modified models for Heretic, a tool advertised as automatically removing model censorship.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to September 22, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-22-2026
- Source linked by the September 22 issue — https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
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