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p-e-w/gemma-4-E2B-it-heretic-ara: Gemma 4's defenses shredded by Heretic's new ARA method 90 minutes after the official release

Via r/LocalLlama
Thursday, Apr 2, 2026 ยท 5:19PM
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Google's Gemma models have long been known for their strong "alignment" (censorship). I am happy to report that even the latest iteration, Gemma 4, is not immune to Heretic's new Arbitrary-Rank Ablation (ARA) method, which uses matrix optimization to suppress refusals. Here is the result: https://hu

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