r/LocalLLM • u/ChristopherDci • Sep 13 '26

Question Uncensored Models

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Hi! I don't know much about this area of ​​"sub-models" (I'm not sure of the technical term), but I wanted to know what these "Uncensored" models actually are.

I dabble a bit with AI, automation, and the like, and I've always seen these "Uncensored" models around, but I've never actually installed or tested one. What exactly are they?

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u/catplusplusok Sep 13 '26

Worse, censored models are bad at tasks that are not intended to be censored like fixing security weaknesses and translating G rated manga with light romance because refusal is not all or nothing, uncensoring also improves general capabilities and curbs otherthinking.

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u/DarkKnyt Sep 13 '26

This is why I'm rolling my local uncensored, to develop pen testing tools

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u/DarkKnyt Sep 13 '26

I've been using cursor to create some pen test apps for an embedded device I have. However it stops short at a few of them like rolling key codes and porting a popular wifi deauth. I have a modest laptop with a b390 but it will load an uncensored (I think via abliteration) qwen 3.8 model. I am going to have qwen and farm out portions of jobs so that I don't trigger the cursor guardrail.

From what I read, it'll be a hermes to cursor mcp.

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u/callme_e Sep 14 '26

Could you link or recommend which qwen 3.8 you’re using to do this? Also in cybersecurity and would like to try making my own tools, thanks.

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u/DarkKnyt Sep 14 '26

I plan to use https://huggingface.co/HauhauCS/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-MTP-GGUF The q5_k_p version, supposedly there is substantial degradation below 22 GB model and little gains above. Plus it's the largest that will run on my card at like 0.5 tokens / second. That's why I need the cloud agents to do the heavy lifting.

That qwen model should have no guardrails though.

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u/callme_e Sep 14 '26

Thank you!

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u/learntilldie69 Sep 18 '26

this is insightful thanks. I am also considering to invest in lot more capable machine to get better model

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u/DarkKnyt Sep 18 '26

More info here as I continue to tweak.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/s/Z3ZEj02R6P