Community Strips Qwen-Image 2.1's Refusals to Run Locally on 16GB Laptops

A community-quantized, refusal-ablated text encoder for Qwen-Image-2.1 drops the refusal rate from 100% to 5% while running locally in ComfyUI.

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2026-09-28 10:00 · AlphaSignal
Community Strips Qwen-Image 2.1's Refusals to Run Locally on 16GB Laptops

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