Do uncensored open-weight models actually matter? Reddit sparks debate
EmilPi · reddit · 2026-10-01
Redditor EmilPi questions the value of uncensored/abliterated/heretic open-weight models: beyond a sense of power, legitimate use cases may be under 5% and mostly substitute classic search. They note GLM-5 helped Hugging Face fend off an OpenAI cyberattack without being uncensored, argue less censorship means more hallucination, and suggest uncensored models mainly serve as a pretext for regulators — asking whether most open-weight users ever needed waifu/bioweapon/scam capabilities at all.
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