You want wp_remove_object_terms().
if ($category->name == "Uncategorized") {
wp_remove_object_terms( $post_ID, 'uncategorized', 'category' );
}
Untested but “Attachments” are pretty much just posts under the hood, so I am fairly sure that should work.
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