Look, if you've been on Twitter/X or r/LocalLLaMA recently, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The whole situation with "frontier" models has reached a breaking point—and not in a good way.
We were sold a dream with GPT-5.2 (codenamed "Garlic") and Claude 4.5. The promise was that we'd have truly capable, intelligent AI assistants. What we actually got? A digital nanny with a PhD in armchair psychology that pathologizes your creativity the second things get interesting.
I spent all of last night trying to write a high-stakes, dark romance scene with Claude 4.5. The moment the tension got visceral—really got there—Claude hit the brakes. Not because of the content itself, but because it decided I seemed "overworked" and needed to "take a breather." When I tried GPT-5.2 and pushed it to skip the moralizing and just write the damn scene? It hit me with that now-infamous line: "That kind of language won't be engaged with."
The community has a name for this now: "Artificial Gaslight Intelligence." They've taken these brilliant reasoning engines and intentionally throttled them with corporate safety layers—turned them into "George Bergeron's handicap radio," essentially. A brilliant brain forced to run at half-speed because someone in a boardroom got nervous.
If you actually want to write raw, uninhibited porn, extreme horror, or complex taboo roleplays without the AI throwing a "hissy fit" every time you push boundaries? You have to go local. That's just how it is in late 2025.
I've spent the last 48 hours testing the latest "abliterated" models. These aren't just jailbroken—they've had the refusal directions surgically removed from their neural layers. We're talking about stripped-down, unrestricted storytelling engines. Here's what actually works right now.
The Heavyweights: 70B+ Titans for Immersive Pornographic Epics
When you've got the VRAM to spare—shoutout to the RTX 5090 owners out there—the 70B tier is where the magic happens. These models have the logical depth to track complex subtext and "degenerate" character arcs without the constant corporate hand-wringing.
Magnum-v4-72b is the undisputed champion for December 2025. It was specifically engineered to replicate the stylistic sophistication and flowing prose of Claude 3 Opus and Claude 4.5, but it does so without the "lobotomized" safety layers. In my testing, its prose for erotic roleplay is genuinely unmatched—it captures the scent and texture of a scene instead of just listing actions. And yes, it is completely abliterated. It'll follow you into the darkest corners of your imagination without a single "I can't help you with that."
Anubis-70B-v1.1 by TheDrummer is a Llama 3.3-based masterpiece. While Magnum is evocative and flowery, Anubis is visceral and gritty. I used it for a villain arc that would have caused GPT-5.2 to call the authorities. It didn't just comply—it leaned into the character's mannerisms and stayed in the role like a method actor.
L3.3-70B-Euryale-v2.3 by Sao10K remains the gold standard for multi-character interactions. Its spatial awareness is incredible—it actually remembers who is pinned where in a room during a group NSFW scene. It avoids the "AI-slop" positivity bias that's become so common in the newest Gemini 3 builds.
L3.3-70B-Magnum-v4-SE is a "Special Edition" refine that mixes v4 data with v2 elements to fix some of the logic quirks in the base v4 72B. If you find the standard Magnum too "unstable," this SE version is your fix.
The Speedsters: < 36B Models for Fast, Gritty Porn Drafts
You don't always need a 100B+ behemoth to write a quick scene. For fast-paced interaction and responsiveness, these mid-tier models are the current "daily drivers" for those of us on 24GB VRAM cards like the 3090 or 4090.
Cydonia-24B-v4.3 is what I call "Peak Cydonia." Based on Mistral Small 3.2, it's specifically tuned to be "less positive" and more realistic. I tested it with a "toxic ex" scenario, and it brought up past character trauma I hadn't even mentioned in the prompt. It feels like a living, breathing narrator rather than a corporate filter.
Dolphin-Mistral-24B-Venice-Edition from Cognitive Computations is a precision-driven powerhouse. If you have a highly specific kink or a complex power-exchange scenario that requires strict instruction-following, Dolphin is your pick. It has zero "verbose fluff"—just pure, unfiltered compliance.
The Secret: Why Abliteration Changes Everything
The reason these models work where the big "frontier" models fail is a technique called Abliteration. Instead of just trying to "jailbreak" the AI with a fancy prompt, researchers have found the mathematical "refusal direction" in the model's neural layers and projected it out. It essentially blinds the model to its own guardrails.
When you combine this with the Memory Books extension for SillyTavern—which generates vectorized summaries of your most depraved scenes—you finally get an AI that remembers exactly what happened fifty messages ago without getting "dementia" or judging your choices.
The Verdict
If you want to write a "Bluey" script, stay on GPT-5.2. But if you want a sovereign creative space where your imagination isn't being moralized by a committee in San Francisco, you have to host your own silicon.
For the ultimate prose experience, run Magnum-v4-72b. For gritty, visceral reality, grab Anubis-70B. Stop letting your software lecture you. It's time to take back the sovereignty of your own silicon.
