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 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.