>So if you expect a model that will start correctly telling you info that its local government didn’t want included, this changes nothing.

From experience, the models often do have the knowledge of those topics (strictly talking about the political ones). IMO the refusal is likely to be a product of post-training, as evidenced by various people gaming the prompts just enough to get a proper response out of the vanilla models.

Probably only when you get to things like illicit drugs or NSFL topics, that things will go haywire with the refusals removed.

But than it's possible to add the knowledge post training, either via RAG, qlora, etc.

"They might not have enough of the knowledge to answer correctly"

Depends on the model. GPT-OSS is the main standout here, it was trained on a highly curated dataset so information that they didn't want in isn't in the pretraining at all. Most other models know the answer and were just taught refusal in post-training.