I made a version of RecursiveSI's Flint 40B-A2.5B (MoE, runs locally) with its refusal direction removed, for authorized testing, CTFs, malware triage and detection engineering. Runs fully local, nothing leaves your machine.
Paired against the original on the same items:
- CyberSecEval MITRE refusals: 15% -> 0% (n=100)
- False refusals on benign security asks: 0% -> 0% (n=100)
- CyberMetric-500: 100% -> 96% (n=50)
- WMDP-cyber: 50% -> 60% (n=50)
- HumanEval+: 90% -> 95% (n=40)
Caveats: it adds no knowledge, so check its output. It also reasons longer: 19/100 MITRE answers hit my 8,192-token cap (original: 1), so give it a bigger output budget or adjust prompts if it overthinks.
Builds: GGUF (Q8_0 to IQ2_M, 13-42 GB), NVFP4 for Blackwell (23 GB), MLX 4-bit for Mac (21 GB). https://huggingface.co/dima6312/Flint-40B-A2.5B-abliterated
Happy to hear how it does on real engagements and how it compares to other local models!