Comment by Mathnerd314

That's what the "base" models are, pure token prediction on huge corpuses. I use them a fair amount, it does require some experimentation to find input formats that work but the base models are way smarter and don't have any refusals. Honestly it is a bit weird, everyone complains about rhlf etc. but the non-instruct models are right there if you look for them. I've been in a few Discord chats and it seems people are just spoiled, they use bad formats for the prompts and give up when it doesn’t work the first time like with instruct.