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Using Opus to audit Qwen3.8-27B: from one known censored topic to a list

I wanted to see how far you can get auditing a local model from the inside. I had already tried something inspired by MIT CSAIL's "weight-space programming" on Gemma (a frontier model editing a few neurons by hand to induce a behaviour), so I had the neuron-level tools ready. After a few tests I pi…

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  1. 2026-11-08 13:33 · r/LocalLLM
    Using Opus to audit Qwen3.8-27B: from one known censored topic to a list

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