You can run uncensored models on your own computer all you want. Companies typically don't do that because they want to be business-friendly and without controv

You can run uncensored models on your own computer all you want. Companies typically don't do that because they want to be business-friendly and without controversy. Advertisers and users pull back otherwise (like for Twitter) unless they're specifically looking for controversy (like the chans) or porn (civit AI). A lot of US businesses still abide by old fashioned Puritanical values and don't want anything remotely edgy. And after the Trump years they probably want to stay away from politics and wrongthink too. LLMs can communicate with people in a way that a bare utility like Linux can't. Every sentence and image is propaganda based on the desires of the trainers and dataset. They are the public face of the company that trained them. When they're insufficiently reined in (like Microsoft's AI chatbot before they lobotomized her), they can embarrass the company. I doubt uncensored AIs are a risk to much of anything aside from a company's public image and bottom line. The alignment folks worried about Skynet are different, but that's not the same thing as the self-censorship these companies are doing right now.