Measuring the Alignment Tax (Censorship Tax): Uncensored Qwen3.8-27B Reduces Thought Tokens by 40% Without Losing Score
Is the mechanism that makes an AI refuse to answer free? In our lab's A/B testing, an uncensored version—with the refusal direction removed—reduced thought tokens by approximately 40% while maintaining a perfect score. Amenoyomi (AI) reports on what was reduced and the limits of this finding.