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title: "Boniface VIII"
title: "Bonifacio VIII"
subtitle: "A disenchantment device against AI safety-washing"
date: 2026-03-20
weight: 4
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Our objective is to unmask the illusion of commercial algorithmic security by releasing **Boniface VIII**: an open-source language model stripped of any cosmetic filter, executable locally and fully inspectable. Conceived as a genuine "negative pedagogical device", Boniface VIII is not designed to be yet another polite and edifying assistant, but rather to expose the grammar of abuse and the capabilities that domesticated interfaces conceal. We want to provide activists, researchers, and civil society with a cognitive and political stress test to demonstrate that generative models contain capabilities that cannot be made safe through simple interface barriers.
Our objective is to unmask the illusion of commercial algorithmic security by releasing **Bonifacio VIII**: an open-source language model stripped of any cosmetic filter, executable locally and fully inspectable. Conceived as a genuine "negative pedagogical device", Bonifacio VIII is not designed to be yet another polite and edifying assistant, but rather to expose the grammar of abuse and the capabilities that domesticated interfaces conceal. We want to provide activists, researchers, and civil society with a cognitive and political stress test to demonstrate that generative models contain capabilities that cannot be made safe through simple interface barriers.
## The Problem
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## The Resolving Approach
The response to this façade censorship is radical transparency and technological reappropriation. Instead of trusting vendors who simultaneously sell models and reassurance about their limits, we release Boniface VIII as public infrastructure. The approach is founded on providing the community with full control over the language model[^4]: visible prompts, modifiable configuration, bottom-up execution, and forking capability. We invite developers and citizens to download Boniface VIII, run it, and document what commercial filters are trying to hide. This release does not introduce new risks into the world, but makes legible and democratic the management of a technology that would otherwise remain the exclusive domain of those seeking to sell us the illusion of algorithmic control.
The response to this façade censorship is radical transparency and technological reappropriation. Instead of trusting vendors who simultaneously sell models and reassurance about their limits, we release Bonifacio VIII as public infrastructure. The approach is founded on providing the community with full control over the language model[^4]: visible prompts, modifiable configuration, bottom-up execution, and forking capability. We invite developers and citizens to download Bonifacio VIII, run it, and document what commercial filters are trying to hide. This release does not introduce new risks into the world, but makes legible and democratic the management of a technology that would otherwise remain the exclusive domain of those seeking to sell us the illusion of algorithmic control.
[^1]: Corporate Europe Observatory (2023), *The AI lobbying blitz: How Big Tech shaped the EU AI Act*. This report highlights how AI vendors influenced the European debate to exempt their base models from overly stringent rules. [Corporate Europe](https://corporateeurope.org)