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stereo • today at 6:04 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

So what is it? The link doesn't explain.


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bel8 • today at 6:08 AM

It's a patched model with less censorship/refusal.

> An abliterated model is an open-weight artificial intelligence (Al) language model that has been modified to remove or reduce its built-in refusal behavior without retraining the entire neural network.

wincy • today at 6:17 AM

Since no one gave you a real world example of how this would be useful - Qwen 3.8 27B runs locally for me and is more than capable of controlling my sonarr and radarr stuff for downloading and managing and organizing my media library but will flatly refuse to do any of that. In fact it’ll get very snarky with me. An abliterated model would have no such hangups.

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AlecSchueler • today at 6:07 AM

The mechanisms for refusals are removed.

moeadham • today at 6:06 AM

its a model that has had all of its refusal behavior removed. It will do whatever you ask.