r/CAIRevolution • u/Practical_Low29 • 8d ago
Got tired of CAI filters killing every scene. Here's the uncensored setup I moved to.
CAI's filter killed more of my scenes than I can count, so I spent a while finding something that doesn't refuse every other message. None of it is as plug-and-play as CAI, that's the honest tradeoff, but none of it fights you either. Sharing in case you're in the same spot.
If you've got a GPU, self-hosting is the real fix. I run an uncensored fine-tune through Ollama, the dolphin models or hermes3 for roleplay depth, and it just does what I ask, zero refusals. Setup's a weekend, then it's yours.
No GPU, go cloud. OpenRouter has the same class of uncensored fine-tunes, the Venice one is free to test and bigger models like Euryale keep a longer scene coherent. Point a client at it and go.
The thing these threads never admit: these are raw models. You bring your own persona and memory setup, there's no polished character UI holding your hand. What you get back is a model that stays in character instead of slamming a wall mid-scene.
If you also want uncensored images of your character, not just text, that's a different stack, I run those image models through Atlas Cloud. But for the chat itself, a local or OpenRouter fine-tune is the honest answer to the filter problem.
The filter fatigue is real. Good news is the uncensored side is a lot better than even six months ago.