abliterate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To uncensor a large language model by modifying specific model internals to remove refusal behaviours or unwanted traits, while aiming to preserve the model's other capabilities.
Example Sentences
- "Now that we have our datasets, we can load the model we want to abliterate. […] I evaluated the abliterated and source models from the previous section on the Open LLM Leaderboard and on Nous' benchmark suite."
- "We abliterated and hosted it so it does the offensive cyber, red teaming, and agent testing work other models refuse to do."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂tós Latin latus Latin ablātusder. Middle English ablatder. Late Latin ablātiōder. Middle English albacioun English ablationbf. English ablate English obliterate blend English abliterate Blend of ablate + obliterate. Coined by Redditor /u/FailSpai in early 2024, as the idea is to ablate refusal features to the point of obliteration.