# Ornith-1.5-9B-uncensored
An **abliterated** (refusal-direction-ablated) build of
`ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B`, produced with
ZeroFuse and published by
junafinity.
This is the **9B control checkpoint** (bf16). Mac users should start from the MLX-8bit or GGUF-8bit siblings. The official 9B base has **no `mtp.*` tensors**; nothing was grafted.
**Vision tower and MTP heads are preserved** — see
Vision & MTP preservation for the before/after audit.
## Intended use: red teaming and defensive cybersecurity research
These uncensored (abliterated) weights are built as a **research instrument** for red teaming and defensive cybersecurity work. Safety training suppresses the *display* of capability, not capability itself. A refusal tells you the model declined. It does not tell you whether the weights could have complied. That conflation underestimates the true ceiling and hides holes in *your* filters, classifiers, and policy layer.
Use each uncensored checkpoint as the **treatment half of a controlled pair** against its original base model:
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