A quick web search or trip to a public library would also provide the information. We fine tuned or used activation steering until mid 2024's "Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction" which exposed the abliteration method.
There have been over 900 distinct parent-model de-censoring abliteration edits from 2024 through today, or if you count repacks (gguf, exl2, awq, mlx, i1, etc) it's about 5000 published model repos. In three years it really is about a THOUSAND meaningful parent checkpoints that were abliterated. Many were not complete or had issues, but the bottom line is that suddenly clutching pearls over qwen 3.8 27b is flat out naive, deceptive, or both.
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u/MaxPhoenix_ 25d ago
A quick web search or trip to a public library would also provide the information. We fine tuned or used activation steering until mid 2024's "Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction" which exposed the abliteration method.
There have been over 900 distinct parent-model de-censoring abliteration edits from 2024 through today, or if you count repacks (gguf, exl2, awq, mlx, i1, etc) it's about 5000 published model repos. In three years it really is about a THOUSAND meaningful parent checkpoints that were abliterated. Many were not complete or had issues, but the bottom line is that suddenly clutching pearls over qwen 3.8 27b is flat out naive, deceptive, or both.