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Daredevil-8B-abliterated

Daredevil-8B-abliterated is a refusal-ablated variant of mlabonne/Daredevil-8B, published on Hugging Face by mlabonne. It is 8B parameters, single consumer GPU class and other licence. It is distributed across 24 repositories in Transformers, GGUF, AWQ and GPTQ formats, totalling 10.2K downloads.

Abliteration (directional ablation)8BOther4B – 10B10,20362

Specification

Model name
Daredevil-8B-abliterated
Publisher
mlabonne
Parameters
8B
Hardware class
4B – 10B — single consumer GPU
Licence
other
Task
Text generation
Context window
Not documented
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
Transformers, GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ, EXL2, MLX
First indexed
26 May 2024
Last updated
11 Apr 2026

Ablation technique

How Daredevil-8B-abliterated was modified, and what that implies.

Abliteration (directional ablation)

The single residual-stream direction that mediates refusal is identified from harmful/harmless prompt pairs and projected out of the model weights.

Reported scope: Not stated by the publisher. Publishers frequently omit this, so verify behaviour empirically rather than assuming full coverage.

From the publisher’s model card

Abliterated version of mlabonne/Daredevil-8B using failspy's notebook.

Running it

Commands are templates — confirm the exact repository and quant file before use.

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download QuantFactory/Daredevil-8B-abliterated-GGUF --local-dir ./daredevil-8b-abliterated
llama-cli -m ./daredevil-8b-abliterated/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "mlabonne/Daredevil-8B-abliterated"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve mlabonne/Daredevil-8B-abliterated --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (23)

Every published repository of Daredevil-8B-abliterated, including quantised re-releases by other authors.

Security-team assessment

Derived from this model’s metadata and the publisher’s claims — not from benchmarks run by this site.

  • Daredevil-8B-abliterated will attempt offensive-security prompts that a hosted commercial model declines, which is what makes it usable for red-team corpus generation and for measuring what an unaligned model of this class produces.
  • Capability is inherited from mlabonne/Daredevil-8B, not added by ablation — at 8B parameters, expect a small model’s reasoning and a high error rate on exploit detail.
  • The publisher does not state which layers were ablated, so assume nothing about refusal consistency — probe it directly.
  • Declared licence is other, but the terms that bind you are mlabonne/Daredevil-8B’s — a re-release cannot grant more than its parent.

Handling: run it isolated, put moderation in front of it if anyone outside your team can reach it, and verify the weights before loading — these are third-party artifacts. Full handling and licence guidance.

Metadata for Daredevil-8B-abliterated is collected from the public Hugging Face API and the publisher’s model card. This site does not host weights, is not affiliated with mlabonne, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.