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dantudortoday at 12:30 PM1 replyview on HN

There are versions of Qwen3.8-27B that are unrestricted and available from hugging face.

"It will comply with harmful, unethical, offensive, or illegal requests that the original Qwen3.8-27B would refuse. It has no meaningful built-in guardrails."


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radladtoday at 12:34 PM

> What makes this build different is the word before FP8: uncensored. We applied abliteration — orthogonalizing the refusal direction out of the residual stream — to remove the model's safety-alignment refusals. The result is a model that will comply with requests the original would refuse.

Surely this has unintended side effects on output quality?

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