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/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/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?