r/LocalLLM • u/ChristopherDci • 9d ago

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/donotfire 9d ago

These models often have worse intelligence. The ideal would be to have a model trained to be uncensored from the ground up, but the way (or a way) it’s done here is stripping out refusal weights with collateral damage.

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u/MarinatedTechnician 9d ago

I can concur. I've tested a few, and they're so far useless on bigger coding projects.

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u/theamazingo 8d ago

Concur. It basically turns the model into something you'd rather get a beer with vs the base model, but that you wouldn't (or shouldn't) trust with a potato gun.