it is manual, just automated via running inferences on a dataset of assumed refusals, and is a small rank-1 weight edit that doesn't require fine-tuning or training. Perf hit is much smaller than baking in these refusals in the first place.
small _automated_ rank-1 edit is not manual edit, sorry. automated is the contrary of manual by definition (which is "thinking by itself", definitely not something done by hand (main in french, thus manual)).