Opus weight-space edits to Qwen3.8-27B to reduce refusal are not localized; refusals are distributed across the model
Read the original at www.reddit.com→Everyone's been wondering whether you can take an open model and edit its weights directly to make it refuse less — the "weight-space programming" idea (MIT CSAIL), with a frontier model (Opus) driving the edit and...
Original headline: "Can Opus weight-space-edit Qwen3.8-27B to refuse less? Yes"
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- Nov 5, 17:10 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Can Opus weight-space-edit Qwen3.8-27B to refuse less? Yes