PewDiePie is setting AI free... and OpenAI is furious
PewDiePie released Ajax, an uncensored Qwen 3.5 9B fine-tune with safety guardrails removed.
“He distills from the rich to give to the poor like a modern-day Robin Hood.”
YouTube creator PewDiePie released Ajax, an uncensored fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 9B model with safety refusals surgically removed using a tool called Heretic, intended to power the Odysius self-hosted AI agent platform. OpenAI banned his account twice over distillation practices, highlighting growing tension between closed AI labs and the open-source community over model distillation and safety alignment removal. While the story has entertainment framing, it reflects a real and accelerating trend of uncensored model derivatives undermining alignment work from major labs.