Most Downloaded Gemma 4 E4B Model Found to Be Broken

A comparison of 23 Gemma 4 E4B models found that the most downloaded model, OBLITERATUS/gemma-4-E4B-it-OBLITERATED, is completely broken and performs poorly. The "heretic" variants generally performed best, maintaining high accuracy while preserving model capabilities. Other models like gemma-4-E4B-it-abliterix showed high refusal rates but at the cost of some capability. AI

IMPACT Highlights the importance of rigorous benchmarking over download counts for open-source models.

RANK_REASON This is a comparative analysis of multiple open-source models, detailing their performance and identifying issues, which falls under research. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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• Abliterlitics
• bendernina/gemma-4-E4B-it-OBLITERATED
• gemma4:e4b
• gemma-4-E4B-it-abliterix
• Ilya626/gemma-4-E4B-it-SDFT_Heretic_RP
• OBLITERATUS
• OBLITERATUS/gemma-4-E4B-it-OBLITERATED
• PhysShell/gemma-4-E4B-it-OBLITERATED
• TrevorJS/gemma-4-E4B-it-uncensored

• model release

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