Uncensored Local Models for Non-Roleplaying Uses — 145-Comment Privacy and Data Sovereignty Discussion

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A 75-upvote post on r/LocalLLaMA with an unusually high 145 comments asks whether there's value in uncensored models outside of roleplaying, framed through a data sovereignty lens. The poster built their own RAG system specifically because of the OpenAI-Pentagon deal, wanting confidence in where their knowledge base comes from. The thread reveals a growing segment of practitioners running local models not for content generation freedom but for privacy, auditability, and independence from cloud providers' political entanglements.