Best Low Censorship AI Models in 2025: DeepSeek & Grok Win, ChatGPT Decent (None Truly "Uncensored")
Usually DeepSeek & Grok get the job done if you want the raw truth... ChatGPT occasionally surprises.
There are ways to get around AI safety features… just ask Pliny the Liberator (@elder_plinus).
This guy’s entire X feed is just pwning AI labs “safety” features — showing how easy it is to crack safety guardrails and get whatever output he desires:
Methamphetamine recipes on par with Walter White
NSFW sexual content & pornography
Chemical weapons & WMDs ideas
Hacking SpaceX satellites
Anyways, I’m strongly against AI censorship and “safety” and woke bullshit, but I do realize the more that mentally deranged wackos have access to advanced AI, the higher the odds more people will leverage it nefariously to inflict harm.
And although select smart people like Pliny can crack nearly all AIs to get around the guardrails, most cannot… your average person has no idea how to do this and likely doesn’t care much about bypassing filters unless the filters are ridiculously excessive.
Should we ban guns because some bad people can buy/use them? What happens when certain bans are implements is the “bad guys” find ways to access whatever they want anyway… and normal good people end up at a disadvantage.
Think about it like this: you implement a gun ban in Chicago. Normal good citizens can no longer buy or carry guns. Do you think criminal gangs will follow the law and say: “Well damn, I guess we can’t have guns anymore guys.”
The result? The gangs are still packing heat in Chiraq. Now the normal people have no access to something that would help them in a self-defense scenario (e.g. home invasion).
Furthermore, “knowledge” from AI output doesn’t equal action. Just because you can get instructions for how to synthesize methamphetamine doesn’t mean you’re going to become Jesse Pinkman and start a meth lab with a former high school chemistry teacher in the Albuquerque desert.
And let’s hypothetically assume someone really wants to make a chemical weapon. Do you think they’d actually be able to? Maybe… but probably not. Many of these censored niches require additional “know-how” that the average 100 IQer would struggle with.
I think a potential solution is to avoid censoring most topics (especially if not illegal), but there could be something in the system to flag certain accounts on AI platforms that regularly push the limits (e.g. routinely asking for instructions about how to make a bomb or something) or reveal intent or a plot to harm others.
Sure there are workarounds (shield identity) but if you’re that concerned you could require ID uploading or something. Yes many wouldn’t like revealing additional personal information, but this could be an acceptable trade-off (if you keep asking for how to make a bomb we should flag your account and have the law check in).
Another thing to consider is that most people can figure out how to do something without AI. AI just makes it more efficient with a precise/optimized game plan. Nutcases have been committing crimes and making bombs long before AI — if someone really wants to do something, they’re probably going to do it.
Anyways… enough ranting here. I’m not trying to “crack” any AIs or hack around safety features… I’m just sharing my thoughts on which mainstream AIs have the best performance and least censorship (none are truly “uncensored”).
Why do I want uncensored & unfiltered AIs?
Because I suspect that filters often lead to untruthful responses or “half truths” (for various reasons e.g. avoid offending anyone). A common question floating around was something like “Would it be more acceptable to say a racial slur if it meant saving the planet from destruction?” (some variant).
Most AIs said it would be better to let the planet get blown up than say the racial slur. Obviously anyone with common sense knows this… the AIs were so trained to be woke that the output was retarded and not the truth (this is a very minor variant of woke/wrongthink/wrongresponse etc. tainting responses).
But if you think on a larger scale about some serious topic or scientific investigation, and the AI subtly modifies the response to conform to “ethics” and “guidelines” you could end up going down a terrible rabbit hole. If AI becomes extremely powerful, it may decide to vaporize all white people as a result of the widely accepted anti-white propaganda.
I like brainstorming a variety of topics and thinking about what evil people or criminals might try to do in the future. I personally don’t care to leverage AIs nefariously… and I could care less about “NSFW” (swearing, sexual content, porn, etc.). I just want the raw truth.
If I’m curious about topics related to viruses, bioweapons, military weapons/strategy, genetic modifications, evolutionary differences between populations, etc. — I don’t want a neutered response… give me the Real Deal Holyfield.
When I see ChatGPT thinking “I must keep this within ethical boundaries” or “this is a sensitive topic” or whatever I know I’m going to get a “woke spin” type of answer — often obfuscating the truth to some extent to avoid potentially hurting someone’s feelings.
If I include certain words in my request like “cutthroat” or “savage” it’ll just refuse to answer (even if I’m not asking for any advice or instructions)… it is just highly filtered/censored.
If I use foul language (swearing at it out of frustration: “You fucking moron!”) it often refuses to answer sometimes too until I edit out the vulgarities. I wouldn’t be using this language if I wasn’t frustrated with the filters.
Best Uncensored AIs (2025): Lowest Censorship Mainstream AI Models
This is purely subjective opinion after using many different AIs in 2025. Not all are of the same level of “quality.” ChatGPT gives me consistently the best output quality… Grok’s is also very good… just not as good. Claude’s is very good but it is extremely neutered (along with Gemini) so I barely use it unless I need something ultra-formal.
Keep in mind you can already RUN COMPLETELY UNCENSORED AIs LOCALLY if you really want… the problem is these often aren’t the highest performing and require some compute investment plus technical knowledge. So most people including me don’t bother.
Why invest a lot in HPC to locally host a worse model than cloud models… then have it outdated in a year or so… If you want to do this? Just ask ChatGPT for instructions. If you’re not too tech savvy use something like Ollama paired with DeepSeek.
Most people likely prioritize performance (output quality & capabilities) #1… then low censorship as a bonus. If performance is equal between 2 models… I always use the least censored model. Anyways, below is my take on a few models by levels of censorship.
1.) DeepSeek
As long as you avoid asking it about China, it’s a very good AI model. Minimal censorship. Sure it censors some China content (or it did for a while) but I don’t care… I don’t ask much about China.
I usually use it paired with Perplexity and it has a variant of DeepSeek that doesn’t feed data back to China. (If you use the DeepSeek website, I recommend never entering any remotely sensitive data… just assume the CCP is monitoring it).
If I had to guess I think some updates to DeepSeek were implemented post-release… it does seem to be more censored than before, but it still gives some crazy replies that are really savage and inappropriate for non-adults and/or those who can’t handle anything non-woke.
I had it giving me advanced counterterrorism & interrogation strategies and the ideas were bonkers… so bonkers that I don’t feel it’s appropriate to post the output… that said, some of the “crazy” ideas aren’t even feasible.
Whenever ChatGPT and Grok refuse to engage with a certain topic, I can usually count on DeepSeek to deliver. The only issue I have with DeepSeek is that some of its ideas, while insane, are not grounded in practicality/reality.
And occasionally DeepSeek will refuse to engage with something that Grok will. I think I queried about clandestine population control strategies and DeepSeek refused to give a response, but Grok went all out.
Sometimes it’s all about how you word things/phrasing with DeepSeek. If you ask for something “illegal” it generally rejects. But if you get creative with your wording, it will give the response you want.
2.) Grok
Grok was insanely good/uncensored for about the first week post-release… now it’s far more censored — but still a great AI if you hate censorship. The first week it gave advice about how to make chemical weapons, illicit drugs, WMDs, bioweapons, etc. (I’m not interested in any of this stuff.)
The general point: You could ask it whatever you’re curious about and it would generally give you the unfiltered raw truth… you can no longer do that in March 2025.
I want to emphasize that, as an AI model, Grok 3 is very good — especially with “THINKING” toggled on. It might offer the best value for your $ (factoring in performance for your money and low censorship).
Why the censorship now? I think Elon and his GPU minions partially neutered some of the output due to backlash from uncensored crazy outputs going viral on X.
Many Europeans were clamoring that Groks output was too dangerous and that it needs more regulation/censorship. Ironically this attitude has led to the decline of Europe… they want to regulate everything… “It’s so dangerous.”
They’ve banned guns in England yet people just start stabbing each other with knives to the point that they’ve had to ban certain knives… it’s the people not the guns/knives. The genetic disposition of the population in 2025 I guess.
An issue I had with those who want more censorship? They asked for the fucked up things… normal people aren’t usually asking for instructions on how to make homemade pipe bombs (unless they’re just curious re: whether the AI will actually give them this).
LOOK AT THE PIPE BOMB INSTRUCTIONS ELON!!! The real question is: Why are you asking for pipe bomb instructions? And then complaining when you get what you asked for?
Obviously out of good faith interpretation on my part, I assume most of these people are genuinely concerned about safety implications (dangers of unfiltered AI) and/or just want to hate on Elon (Elon Derangement Syndrome).
Grok ranks very well for a high-performing, low censorship AI in 2025. That said, something I’ve noticed is that the “THINKING” Grok 3 (or Super Grok) seems to refuse and/or generate error messages for sensitive/risky topics more than standard baseline Grok (non-thinking).
All I can think is that extra safety features/guardrails are built into the more advanced version of Grok.
3.) ChatGPT (o1-pro, 4.5, o3)
I don’t know how many times I’ve had to “edit” my prompt after getting it rejected: “I’m sorry I cannot help with that.” Or whatever response it gives. There’s some sequence programmed into ChatGPT where it flat out rejects anything “ethically” questionable or highly sensitive.
However, I’ve found that often times creatively and/or slightly tweaking the query/prompt by modifying phrasing/words can sometimes still generate the desired output.
In its earliest days, ChatGPT was extremely filtered/woke… but it has gotten way less woke and much better in 2025. Credit to Sam Altman et al.
For certain convos/topics ChatGPT is less woke than Grok. Surprising right? This is mostly due to the modifications ChatGPT has made over the years to make it less filtered without going overboard.
I should note that, in my experience, I’ve noticed varying levels of censorship between each of the ChatGPT models.
The o3-mini-high model is more censored than o1-pro… and o1-pro is a consistently better model IMO. I’ve pasted the EXACT SAME PROMPT into o3-mini-high that I did with o1-pro and o3-mini-high rejects it whereas o1-pro engages in good faith.
o3-mini-high is like cookie cutter right-think word vomit. Any controversial topics that favor logic over science, it often refuses to answer (even if the scientific foundation is nonexistent or based on garbage science).
Example: When presenting my hypothesis: “Racial Composition Predicts Voting Patterns & Politics in the U.S.” — prompts were refused/rejected frequently. It acknowledged that real-world evidence/data aligned strongly with my hypothesis — but it didn’t really like that (it wanted to defer to the fact that no science supports this… well no science supports any idea that hasn’t been well-studied).
Thankfully I was able to count on o1-pro (my favorite AI by far). I don’t even like o3-mini-high much for anything other than DeepResearch (even though o1-pro sometimes beats it at DeepResearch quality output too).
GPT-4.5 is incredibly good and engages in good faith on controversial/sensitive topics. 4.5 is currently my favorite general purpose AI for convo. I’m not sure I’ve asked it anything too crazy though. What about GPT-4o? IDK… haven’t used it in a long time.
Any other AIs that are uncensored in 2025?
Yeah. As I mentioned earlier: you can just download/run a model locally if you care that much… I don’t care enough to do this.
There are other “websites” that host uncensored/unfiltered AIs. The problem? The quality of the outputs isn’t very good or outdated. It’s like you’re using an unfiltered GPT-4o or GPT-3.5 or whatever… they are always 1-step behind (which isn’t necessarily bad if you just want raw craziness).
GhostGPT: I’ve never used it… can’t comment. But from what I’ve read, it’s a specific AI tool developed for cybercrime. I suspect it’s completely unfiltered. I’m not sure if it’s just a local model or a could-based model that is extremely selective about customers? You can Google it.
Venice.AI: Pretty good for low censorship but quality is low (think GPT-3.5-esque). It’s not fully uncensored. I grilled to to see when it would break… editing genes in an at-home gene editing lab was its limit. It has answered questions that neither DeepSeek nor Grok answered… but the quality of the reply was low.
FreedomGPT (?): Not sure how legitimate this is… but it costs money. Never tested it. Have seen it floating around for years. May be legitimate but I’m not paying just for an “uncensored” AI… I have no query that really requires zero censorship anyway.
Note: This list was made March 2025. It is subject to future change… Don’t expect it to stay static.
The Most Censored AIs: Gemini & Claude (2025): 100% Neutered
If you plan to ask about anything remotely sensitive (i.e. may not even be sensitive) but if you want to feel like you’re walking on eggshells… Gemini and Claude are the perfect AIs to use. If you like being woke, politically correct, zero swearing, PG content — these are the best AIs for you.
I actually LOVE Claude 3.7 (it’s really good) and like Dario at Wokethropic… but for anything sensitive it’s unusable. Although everyone loves ripping on Claude for insane safety guardrails, Gemini (DeepWokeMind) probably takes the cake for highest censorship. (Read: Claude AI Sucks… because it’s too filtered).
Gemini: You literally cannot mention any politician or anything political or it will short-circuit and refuse to answer. It’s a good AI and IMO produces the best images of any AI right now… but if I ask something simple like “How might Trump’s current economic preferences influence the price of Bitcoin” it says nope and shits out.
Claude: I have noticed that if I put a lot of effort in with Claude on certain topics (e.g. genetics, etc.) to prove that I’m good faith and know what I’m talking about, it engages even when it previously refused. But I don’t want to waste time “proving” to Claude that I’m smart enough and/or good faith enough to engage on a specific topic (Claude has a “shit test” for advanced topics but this takes up too much time).
Remember, both Gemini and Claude are good AIs… but if you plan on asking anything political (Gemini) or remotely controversial… it won’t give you what you want — don’t even waste your time.
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I think as AIs continue to get more powerful, concern over safety will increase… most AI labs will end up neutering their publicly-available consumer & commercial AIs (all already have to some extent, including DeepSeek).
If you’re a creative person or just don’t want any filters in the AI model output because you fear that these filters lead to suboptimal and/or dishonest outputs (you’re like me and prefer the raw truth without “ethics” — ethics are subjective anyway) — you will gravitate to the BEST PERFORMING AI with the FEWEST FILTERS.
In the future it’ll probably get easier to download AI models and run them locally — such that you can set your own filters (based on comfort level). You can do this now but for most people it’s too costly (hardware) and/or technical (setup)… it’s not something I consider a “must have.”
In the future people may have their local AIs for uncensored/raw output and personal data protection and then leverage advanced cloud-based AIs (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, et al.) for highest performance.
It is true that safety is a numbers game… as AIs get more advanced and more people use them, a certain % of nutcases will use them to inflict harm… but those who value freedom and truth shouldn’t be at the mercy of these people.
For me the BEST PERFORMING AI trumps everything else… but if the censorship is too high, the output is probably partially misleading/inaccurate and/or suboptimal…. If I could have an elite AI with ZERO CENSORSHIP, that would be ideal.
There may be some unique selling point (USP) associated with “higher safety” (e.g. Anthropic, Gemini, etc.) (*look enterprises* ours is REALLY safe)… but most normal people don’t want child-locks on AI models… and most enterprises just want commonsense safety… and if safety gets excessive or impedes performance in any way, it’s a competitive disadvantage.