Over-refusal pushes users to uncensored open models: 'working is less of a headache'

Khaledthe · reddit · 2026-09-24

A Reddit user says mainstream models like Qwen keep refusing benign coding requests borrowed from team projects, so they switched to an uncensored community finetune (Qwen3.8-27B-Heretic). Despite being a roleplay-oriented finetune, it handles their tasks without notable performance loss — another data point on over-refusal driving users to uncensored local models.

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