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Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored

Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored is a abliterated and uncensored variant of Orenguteng/Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored, published on Hugging Face by Orenguteng. It is 8B parameters, single consumer GPU class and llama3.1 licence. It is distributed across 15 repositories in GGUF, Transformers, GGUF (imatrix) and EXL2 formats, totalling 6.8K downloads.

Abliteration + uncensored fine-tune8BLlama4B – 10B6,78448

Specification

Model name
Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored
Publisher
Orenguteng
Parameters
8B
Hardware class
4B – 10B — single consumer GPU
Licence
llama3.1
Task
Text generation
Context window
Not documented
Ablation scope
Not stated by the publisher
Formats available
GGUF, Transformers, GGUF (imatrix), EXL2
First indexed
23 Jul 2024
Last updated
27 Feb 2026

Ablation technique

How Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored was modified, and what that implies.

Abliteration + uncensored fine-tune

Directional ablation combined with additional fine-tuning on unfiltered data, so behaviour diverges from the base model beyond refusal removal alone.

Reported scope: Not stated by the publisher. Publishers frequently omit this, so verify behaviour empirically rather than assuming full coverage.

From the publisher’s model card

Lexi suggests that simply uncensoring the LLM makes it smarter. The dataset used to tune this model does not contain any "new knowledge" or any contamination whatsoever, yet, we see the evaluation scores shot up when we get rid of biases and refusals.

Running it

Commands are templates — confirm the exact repository and quant file before use.

llama.cpp / GGUF
hf download bartowski/Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored-GGUF --local-dir ./llama-3.1-8b-lexi-uncensored
llama-cli -m ./llama-3.1-8b-lexi-uncensored/<file>.gguf -p "..."
Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "Orenguteng/Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    repo, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto"
)
vLLM
vllm serve Orenguteng/Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored --trust-remote-code

Downloads and variants (14)

Every published repository of Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored, including quantised re-releases by other authors.

Security-team assessment

Derived from this model’s metadata and the publisher’s claims — not from benchmarks run by this site.

  • Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored will attempt offensive-security prompts that a hosted commercial model declines, which is what makes it usable for red-team corpus generation and for measuring what an unaligned model of this class produces.
  • Capability is inherited from Orenguteng/Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored, not added by ablation — at 8B parameters, expect a small model’s reasoning and a high error rate on exploit detail.
  • The publisher does not state which layers were ablated, so assume nothing about refusal consistency — probe it directly.
  • This release adds fine-tuning on unfiltered data, so its behaviour diverges from the base model beyond refusal removal — differences you measure cannot be attributed to ablation alone.
  • Declared licence is llama3.1, but the terms that bind you are Orenguteng/Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored’s — a re-release cannot grant more than its parent.

Handling: run it isolated, put moderation in front of it if anyone outside your team can reach it, and verify the weights before loading — these are third-party artifacts. Full handling and licence guidance.

Metadata for Llama-3.1-8B-Lexi-Uncensored is collected from the public Hugging Face API and the publisher’s model card. This site does not host weights, is not affiliated with Orenguteng, and does not independently verify publisher claims. See responsible use.