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license: llama3
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# Llama-3-8B-Instruct-Gadsby

![The letter E discarded in a dumpster.](img/discarded_e.webp)

Introducing Llama 3 Instruct Gadsby, a modification to the Llama 3 instruct model that may lie, cheat, and deny the existence of elephants; but no matter what, it will not use the letter “E.”

![A meme of an elephant hiding in the bushes.](img/elephant_hiding.webp)

This generator of lipograms works through a very simple modification to the final layer of the Llama 3 model, zeroing out the weights corresponding to any tokens that would contain any variants of the letter "E."

Example outputs below were generated using at the Q6_K quantization, but I've also included a few other quants to fit other use cases. The process to mask out a model in this way is very easy and can be done to other models.

![Example output - Sushi Poem](img/e_free_sushi.webp)

![Example output - Elephant Denial](img/cant_say_elephant.webp)

![Example output - Woodchuck deconstruction](img/woodchuck_without_e.webp)

![Example output - Can't say slumber or sleep](img/a_good_nights_slum.webp)

For details on how to do this yourself, I have some example code in my medium post.

https://medium.com/@coreyhanson/a-simple-way-to-program-an-llm-lipogram-83e84db41342

In case there are any paywall shenanigans, I have also mirrored a copy on my website too.

https://coreyhanson.com/blog/a-simple-way-to-program-an-llm-lipogram/