Are they really useful for anything but porn?

I've tried deepseek-v4.1-flash and qwen-3.8 and both refuse to answer about radio jamming, unauthorized access to local systems, etc. Citing that this is illegal anywhere and they can't help me. ๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿฅด

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[โ€“] 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Actually, yes.

It's been my experience in using models from DavidAU that the abliterated ones seem much less concerned about finding the one perfect, satisfy all requirements answer, when there's a "good enough" solution.

The reason that matters is that in the earlier qwen models, trying to find a perfect solution would often cause loops, whereas a good enough solution would be good enough.

That can come in useful in all sorts of logic puzzles, reasoning etc.

I can't say for sure that this applies to all abliterated models, but certainly his hive mind series have that distinct ability. Eg:

https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/Qwen3-4B-Hivemind-Instruct-Heretic-Abliterated-Uncensored-NEO-Imatrix-GGUF?not-for-all-audiences=true

Unfortunately, their tool calling abilities were poor, so overall it's a bit of a wash.

I suppose it boils down to what you need the thing for.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

    this is interesting, it makes sense but I've never tested it

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