Comment by inigyou

7 hours ago

Grok is the #1 uncensored easily-available model, and it's also tightly integrated with Twitter.

Is uncensored a selling point? What do people use uncensored Grok for (like, real use cases) that they can't or won't use other LLMs for? Literally the only thing I can think of is generating bad porn of unconsenting people.

  • Some have mentioned legal work. OpenAI and Anhropic models would refuse to work on cases where something immoral happened.

  • I mean absolutely read any thread about Fabel and it's fill with people complaining about how it instantly downgrades or refuses if anything has CVE in the name.

    Other then that there is the whole alignment issue. Models that are 'nerfed' in just about any manner tend to exhibit reduced performance is seemingly unrelated areas.

    That said Grok doesn't appear to be close enough to the frontier for that to matter. Maybe if they catch up it will.

    • Thanks for the reply. I only use local/open models, and don't use them for security work, so I don't have much exposure to frontier alignment and Fable/Mythos stuff beyond what I read from others here on HN.

I don't remember online discourses on filter avoidance for Grok to be any different from typical ones, except that it allegedly have tendency to take porn-biased interpretations of prompts, I think the "uncensored" pitch they had for a while was pure marketing in the end.

  • A few months ago it was the only model that would make children in pictures naked. I think that's been patched since Elon got sued over it.