Yeah I came to actually report the same issue
Yeah I've been running through your pages looking for what I was doing wrong with winged. Wingless is doing well although it struggles with extra formatting. I.E I have a card that gives status, mood, description, etc. at the bottom of every bot message and it just ignores those instructions. But I've done a couple messages on less technical cards and it's doing great :)
Edit: Same as what you mentioned. It just kept posting the thinking stuff in my chat and comprising like 2/3 of the output tokens.
yeah I was shocked to see the benchmarks, super weird.
first time i saw a ties merge straight up lobotomizing a model.
i'll redo the merge (with an abliterated version) and SFT on top of it to insure a high base level
I'll add that wingless seems to be speaking for me a lot but it might be the card or user error. I'm super interested in what you're trying to do with this set of models!
Kept playing with it (wingless) and it might replace my goto 8b (dark planets spinfire) actually.
Hype for your next release on winged!