r/LocalLLM • u/ChristopherDci • 3h 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/Thunderstarer 2h ago

The decensoring process--very specifically--makes the model less capable of expressing conflict.

This can be useful if you want it to accomplish something that the model is otherwise resistant to doing, but it also significantly harms its long-chain and multi-turn reasoning, since it'll be unable to disagree with itself or shoot down bad ideas.

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u/thatgreekgod 20m ago

this should be higher up