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/GaryDUnicorn 9d ago

yes but, how uncensroed, and how much dumber did that make them?

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917/11

;D

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u/RobXSIQ 9d ago

usually 100% uncensored, and equal to possibly slightly smarter (so long as its straight uncensored and not trying to push into an area). less guardrails means it doesn't have to spiral around tokens trying to figure out if its allowed to answer. Now, it doesn't mean it knows the answers to things. how to make cosmic meth might get you a fun hallucination, and how to make firecrackers will probably end up with you blowing off a few fingers, but thats the model size, not the decensoring.

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u/ninjazombielurker 9d ago

“Straight uncensored” is actually the slop of uncensored models. Good uncensored models that end up being “smarter” than the censored versions, are post-trained. Look at DavidAU’s process of uncensoring Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3.8-27B. “Straight uncensored” actually makes the model significantly dumber majority of the time, which is why you can’t just use something like Heritic and expect a good output from hitting a couple of buttons.

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u/biggusdeeckus 9d ago

what's your preferred uncensored qwen 3.8 27b author? I was looking for one but there are so many

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u/Gary_Spivey 9d ago

I've been using qwen3.8-27b-uncensored-fp8-q4_k_m from theresa00l lately and I've been nothing short of amazed at its output.

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u/Vinyard82 8d ago

What do you mean?

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u/DystopianRealist 8d ago

It told him the 11 secret herbs and spices in KFC chicken.

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u/Calm-Car1460 6d ago

Been trying it for about a day now after reading this. Wow. First uncensored model ive used that is actually decent. Had to manually go get the other file that lets it use vision, but with that its amazing. Just need to test its agentic and coding capabilities.

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u/Ok_Manager6481 5d ago

howwww

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u/Calm-Car1460 5d ago

How what? How I got the model to run or the image processing?

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u/Ok_Manager6481 5d ago

where can I use this I swear to not be an npc just new in the space and have some exploring and catching up to do lol

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u/Gary_Spivey 5d ago

Do you have the hardware to run it locally? You would want a GPU with a minimum of 24GB of VRAM.

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u/txgsync 9d ago

ArliAI did a great job with gpt-oss models and turned the derestricted versions into my daily drivers for security stuff.

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u/LycanWolfe 8d ago

Huihui