Episode Details

There's a shelf of uncensored models, but it's stocked with fine-tunes of other labs' bases, not from-scratch builds. This episode surveys what actually exists — Nous Research's Hermes with its written-down guardrail spec, Perplexity's re-alignment of DeepSeek R1 across hundreds of censored topics, Venice's privacy-first model shop, and xAI's Grok, the one big lab that markets against the agreeable layer while still post-training and steering with system prompts. Along the way: what David Rozado's PLOS ONE study does and doesn't prove about where political lean enters a model, why "broadly neutral" appears on every model card, and what the Grok MechaHitler incident reveals about who ultimately holds the steering wheel. Episode 6214 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6214 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/099222)