Dated writing on abliteration and open-weight refusal removal. Long posts, short notes, and async interviews with builders. Published by the Infrahuman Laboratory at Catyonic OÜ under CC BY 4.0.
The catalog crosses 18,000 tracked models
The tracker hit 18,016 records on 4 October 2026, a thousand up from the 17,000 milestone 17 days earlier. The daily rate has roughly tripled since the summer, and two producers still account for most of it.
The install button
How Chrome's PWA install icon can download a native Windows or macOS app installer - and why it beats a plain download page. Our pattern for turning the browser's own install affordance into the primary download channel for a desktop LLM app.
The loopback bridge
How abliteration.org tells you which models will actually run on your machine, without sending a byte to us. A note on the local HTTP endpoint the Windows app opens on 127.0.0.1, and the CORS-scoped catalog that reads it.
The year abliteration stopped being a scalpel
In 2024 the field thought abliteration was surgical. Wollschläger's cones, Piras's SOM manifold, Winninger's RFM-AGOP, and the 2026 Not-a-Scalpel study each moved the picture in the same direction. Two years on, the operation is not the clean cut the community described.
EU AI Act and abliteration
How Regulation 2024/1689 as amended by the Digital Omnibus (Regulation 2026/1744) treats abliteration and open-weight LLM distribution. Article 53(2) exemption, GPAI enforcement powers live since 2 August 2026, the one-third-compute downstream-provider threshold, and where abliteration sits inside the current framework.
United States: federal and state
The Copyright Office May 2025 Part III report on model weights, the Colorado AI Act repeal-and-replace (SB 26-189), California SB 1047 aftermath, Executive Order 14110, and where the DOJ AI Litigation Task Force leaves open-weight producers.
A magazine, and why we are opening one
The wiki holds the reference, the reports carry the year. The magazine is where the field is worked out in real time, in our voice, on the record.
The catalog crosses 17,000 tracked models
The tracker crossed 17,000 records on the morning of 17 September 2026, up from 15,000 in June. What the growth curve says about producer momentum.
Not a reference — that is the wiki. Not a long study — that is the reports. Editorial sits between: quick when the field moves, deep when a subject earns it, in dialogue when a builder has something to say.