PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product

[u/Miserable_Phase_2519]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/pewdiepie-unveils-uncensored-ajax-ai-model-built-to-run-on-home-pcs-creator-says-openai-banned-him-twice-while-making-it

[u/Holzkohlen]

The theft factory is mad someone is stealing from them. The irony is absolutely delicious.

[u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats → u/Holzkohlen]

The kind President Curtis will tax.

[u/EagerSleeper → u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats]

Cum?

[u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats → u/EagerSleeper]

I think the comment I replied to got removed.

But yes. Gotta tax the cum.

[u/verendum → u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats]

Even gooning is becoming unaffordable. This is the worst timeline.

[u/TetraNeuron → u/Holzkohlen]

OpenAI's models were probably trained on text captions from Pewdie's videos at some point, so he stealing something of his own back

[u/Pauly_Amorous → u/Holzkohlen]

Reminds me of people making mod chips for console owners to play pirated games getting mad that some other group ripped off their design.

[u/Chaeryeeong → u/Pauly_Amorous]

there was this "AI artist" on Twitter that got mad because someone used his prompt and got more likes lmao

[u/_senpo_ → u/Chaeryeeong]

those mfs have the nerve to say "I made this" no you didn't. You just let the machine do it with stolen data

[u/Vast_Telephone_9988]

I feel the reason all these AI company CEOs are now wanting to come together for "regulation" of some sort is because they like other industries want to simply craft a bunch of rules and laws that ultimately benefits them. I could see them demanding open source models be outlawed just so they maintain control.

[u/Dreamshadow1977 → u/Vast_Telephone_9988]

Regulatory capture is the term you are looking for.

[u/itchylol742 → u/Vast_Telephone_9988]

they can cry and scream all they wont but it wont change shit. companies that make video games, movies, songs, tv shows, books, etc. already have the law on their side in that piracy is illegal. and yet its very easy to find pirated versions of all that media. laws dont mean shit if enforcement is impossible. open ai models are about the same size as modern video games (3GB to 100GB) and run on similar consumer grade so stopping the spread is impossible

[u/PantsOfAwesome → u/Vast_Telephone_9988]

More likely outcome is that Nvidia starts making it so that LLMs and diffusion models can’t run on consumer-grade GPUs. Just look at how they responded to the bitcoin boom back around COVID - they did the same exact thing.

[u/WJMazepas → u/PantsOfAwesome]

They released one consumer card that was hash limited to make it easier to sell to gamers

And they want everyone using their GPUs for LLM. They even publicly criticize Microsoft for requiring a NPU for using local LLMs in laptops instead of using their GPUs

[u/MrTastix → u/WJMazepas]

They even publicly criticize Microsoft for requiring a NPU for using local LLMs in laptops instead of using their GPUs

Yeah but that's only because it eats into their golden goose.

[u/pyrospade → u/Vast_Telephone_9988]

They are already trying to play the national security card to get the government to ban open source models

[u/Shootemout → u/Vast_Telephone_9988]

they dont want companies or people like pewds to do the same thing to them what they did to everyone else

[u/AFCSentinel]

A lot of people basically missed out on how Felix ended up DIYing a lot of AI stuff, along with de-googling, promoting open source etc.
In a sense he’s probably one of the few more high profile people nowadays keeping up the early 00s spirit of the internet in the face of global enshittification.

[u/obeytheturtles → u/[deleted]]

I find that de-googling myself is a lot easier if I light some candles and put on some smooth jazz.

[u/biznatch11 → u/obeytheturtles]

Hey Liz Lemon, you mind if I Google myself in your office?

[u/peidol → u/[deleted]]

Not for people who actually use the email to send. If you're not in one of the bigs get ready for your emails to end up in spam and no one reads it.

[u/shwhjw → u/[deleted]]

I was considering proton mail as a de-googled alternative, any particular reason why you chose startmail? Not heard of them before.

[u/Zenfulbliss → u/shwhjw]

i am using proton as my only email, they host mail for 3 domains I own. I also use their drive, password keeper and vpn products, I bought the annual unlimited package for US110 a year. All of their products are somewhat under powered, they just don't have the financial resources to do everything as well as google, but they also don't spy on me and sell my personal data to anyone with a buck like google does, so i am happy with them so far. They also have free email accounts and other products.

[u/jtj5002 → u/[deleted]]

It's funny because the best way to de-Google your phone is buying a Google phone.

Until the Motorola comes out next year.

[u/sir_slothsalot → u/[deleted]]

Try and replace maps. 

I self host a lot. Google still has it's claws in me. 

[u/jrad1299 → u/[deleted]]

I want to use open maps so bad, but it’s kinda crazy how much stuff they’re missing. I’ve spent a few hours just adding businesses that should be around me.

[u/Samul-toe → u/[deleted]]

https://www.optoutproject.net/ My favorite thing is telling people about this. I use proton for email, passwords, vpn and zoom calls, pcloud for Dropbox sub.

[u/RlOTGRRRL → u/[deleted]]

You don't have to do it all at at once. It's easy if you do it slowly, baby steps, one thing at a time, over time.

[u/ACasualRead]

He would be a hypocrite if he sold this model and didn’t open source it simply for the fact that he’s admitting that he used OpenAI to train his own model.

We all know open AI trained theirs on our data so this just feels like a bunch of robbers stealing from each other and selling us back our own stereo system.

[u/forevertraveling → u/ACasualRead]

He released Odysseus for free so I doubt he will be selling Ajax.

[u/_steve_rogers_ → u/forevertraveling]

Have you used Odysseus? I want to try it but don't know how useful it would be for me

[u/forevertraveling → u/_steve_rogers_]

Sorry, but no. I will once I have something other than a 2016 MacBook with 8 gb of ram.

[u/IntelArtiGen → u/_steve_rogers_]

It depends on what you want to do with it. I tried it, I don't use it because I don't consider it useful for my workflow and my constraints. I would recommend Goose more: https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose (for privacy and simplicity). But I'm sure a lot of people could prefer Odysseus. Though most people are on much more complete harnesses: hermes, codex, openclaw (100-400k stars, vs 50k-80k for goose/ody) etc. which have their own problems as it's explained in the video.

[u/morganational → u/ACasualRead]

It's open source, he's trying to give it away.

Edit: What a bizarre comment to have so many upvotes on. Pewdiepie is actually an incredibly kind and interesting person. If you were playing online games back then, you would have been shouting the same stupid crap, everyone did. Just wanted to clarify for all those who don't know anything about him except when the media decided to make an example out of him.

Edit: Sure, I used hyperbole, I apologize if you don't understand what that means. If you reply and tell me that "no, no one was doing that back then, he's just a bad bad man!" that just tells me that you weren't playing online back then, or you're a liar.

[u/Remarkable-Host405 → u/morganational]

most of these models are open WEIGHT, which is not the same as open SOURCE, fyi

[u/SnowyDeveloper → u/Remarkable-Host405]

Mind explaining the difference to someone not well versed in ai?

[u/Atheren → u/SnowyDeveloper]

Open source would allow you to train your own, with the underlying code of the AI being available to look at.

Open weights is the AI after it's been trained, and is similar to just giving away a free program that's more modifiable than a normal one.

[u/meneldal2 → u/Atheren]

Afaik here Open Source would be tricky because you'd likely be providing evidence that could be used against you and make it a slam dunk for OpenAI when they sue you.

It is very likely some methods they used ran into the very anti user laws the US has passed to make big corpos happy.

[u/Atheren → u/meneldal2]

That would be a civil case and he lives in Japan though, which currently doesn't extradite for civil matters.

He doesn't really have to care about us law. It might be a problem if his money is being held here and can be seized, but that would be private financial information I wouldn't have any idea about.

[u/Able-Swing-6415 → u/Atheren]

Unless he's planning on traveling any time in the future

[u/Atheren → u/Able-Swing-6415]

Honestly now that I think about it more even if he did travel he could ignore it anyway it unless it was somehow elevated to a criminal case. It's practically unheard of to be jailed over a civil case. If there's no us assets to seize, open AI doesn't have much legal recourse unless they go through the Japanese court system or the court system of wherever his money is held.

And at that point he might also have needed to have done something in their jurisdictions which is well beyond my non-professional understanding of how this all works.

[u/dultas → u/Atheren]

It's practically unheard of to be jailed over a civil case.

They're a big AI company who has the Presidents ear, I'm sure they could pull some strings.

[u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance → u/Atheren]

>AI doesn't have much legal recourse unless they go through the Japanese court system

Why does that seem so far-fetched? OpenAI has an office in Japan.

[u/eattheambrosia → u/Atheren]

If there's no us assets to seize

Isn't this guy pretty rich? I'd be shocked if he didn't have investments in the US.

[u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance → u/Atheren]

>he lives in Japan though, which currently doesn't extradite for civil matters.

You can enforce a civil judgement in Japan though. It's complicated, but there are treaties and processes that allow for it.

[u/meneldal2 → u/Atheren]

The US is great at pressuring other countries to take your money or freeze it.

They can make up shit like you support Russia or Iran if that's what it takes.

Didn't they get people from the ICC banned from having credit cards?

We all know how much Trump is going all-in deepthroating those big AI companies.

[u/PrivateVasili → u/SnowyDeveloper]

Open weights is more or less the model being openly available. Being fully open source would be not just the model, but also the training code, and ideally also the training data, which created it.

[u/MLutin → u/PrivateVasili]

So I get my data back?

[u/BadAdviceBot → u/PrivateVasili]

also the training data

How many petabytes is that?

[u/PrivateVasili → u/BadAdviceBot]

Yeah obviously with LLMs that ceases to be a practical expectation, which is why I used the word "ideally".

[u/vintageballs → u/BadAdviceBot]

Usually well below 1PB. We ofc don't have exact numbers from OpenAI and the like, but for the previous generation of Qwen models they trained on ~30T tokens which is probably a little under 100TB.

[u/OpalFanatic → u/BadAdviceBot]

Roughly? All of them.

[u/WallStreetHatesMe → u/SnowyDeveloper]

Open source would be releasing the training pipeline for the model as well as the dataset it was trained on. Open weight is releasing the resulting output of that process that can be fine-tuned.

For 99.999% of people Open source is useless because there is a large amount of compute needed to train such a model. Open-sourcing models typically helps enterprises far more than people which is why it’s rarely done.

[u/Federal_Setting_7454 → u/WallStreetHatesMe]

It also helps academic institutions significantly

[u/Fantastic-Cod-9048 → u/SnowyDeveloper]

Waiting for some nerd to correct me on a technicality but, in a nutshell….

Open weight can be fine-tuned (LoRA), but the base model can be proprietary.

Open source means everything needed to recreate the model (dataset, scripts, etc) is available publicly. So, you can recreate the model from scratch, provided you have access to the necessary hardware.

Edited for readability and clarity, because I haven’t had coffee yet.

[u/degenny_ → u/SnowyDeveloper]

Open weights is free cake. Open source is free cake recipe.

[u/arcusford → u/morganational]

"Incredibly kind" but ya know mildly nazi adjacent.

And idk man I was online during that period playing Halo and I wasnt calling people the N word when they killed me.

[u/doom_memories → u/morganational]

If you were playing online games back then, you would have been shouting the same stupid crap, everyone did.

lmao, speak for yourself. Plenty of people were calling him out for his terrible behavior when it was current (and not being awful themselves).

[u/morganational → u/doom_memories]

Yeah, like the media, which I mentioned

[u/RollingMeteors → u/morganational]

selling us back our own stereo system.

he's trying to give it away

Man that must be a shitty stereo...

[u/No_Accountant3232 → u/morganational]

Sorry but in all my years of online play I never resorted to calling people the n word. Why do people constantly forgive his bad behavior when he's never shown any regret for being a racist piece of shit? 

[u/Substantial_Meal_530 → u/ACasualRead]

Always has been.

"You can't steal our data! We stole it first!"

[u/Popular_Try_5075 → u/Substantial_Meal_530]

very "Pirates of Silicon Valley"

[u/mcslender97 → u/ACasualRead]

I think it's likely. The harness he made is open src, the base model is Qwen which is also open src....

[u/shornscrot → u/mcslender97]

Why would you spell every word but source?

[u/honjuden → u/shornscrot]

Do you know how much vowels cost these days?

[u/CakeTester → u/honjuden]

I know, right? It's revowelting.

[u/androidmanwren → u/shornscrot]

How would you know he was a super 1337 t3ch Nrd if he didn't talk in shorthand

[u/robodrew → u/androidmanwren]

There wasn't nearly enough "compute" in the sentence

[u/7fingersDeep → u/shornscrot]

L33t programmer

[u/dultas → u/shornscrot]

Probably habit. In Linux the directories that contain the source code are shortened to src.

[u/bobsmith93 → u/shornscrot]

Not me wondering what the hell src stands for lol

(thanks)

[u/Amoner → u/shornscrot]

That’s how you know that he wrote it and not LLM

[u/greysunhollis → u/Amoner]

Unfortunately, the damn things are now spewing l33t speak too… even more insufferable

[u/pregnantant → u/ACasualRead]

You don't think PewDiePie has enough money already? He's not really known for being greedy.

[u/RedditsChosenName → u/ACasualRead]

It’s a copy of a copy. Now we need someone to distill his model to make their own.

[u/Nater5000]

Just in case anybody isn't aware and curious:

This is "newsworthy" because it's PewDiePie. Nothing he did is particularly unique or interesting. Uncensored models are pretty easy to create, get, and use, so it's a bit weird that there's such an emphasis on that aspect of this. Furthermore, his model is a fine-tuned Qwen3.5-9B model. So it's a few generations old and very small. You can go find uncensored Qwen3.8-27B models which run on consumer hardware, are quite capable, and can be setup and used in minutes if you have a good enough GPU. Additionally, his custom harness doesn't seem to offer anything particularly interesting, and him being banned from OpenAI for distillation says more about his naivety than it does his ingenuity.

And I'm not coming at PewDiePie, specifically. I don't know what he's pitching or anything (I don't really care). He's free to talk about his experience with this stuff and obviously he has an audience. I'm more commenting on this lazy article reaching the top of r/all on a technology subreddit. I'm sure there are people here who are confused about all of this, and I just think it's worth pointing out that anybody with a decent GPU and enough free time and interest in AI can accomplish the same stuff in a day if they wanted. There's just not much of a story here.

[u/Wahngrok → u/Nater5000]

Thanks for this. I was wondering why this is newsworthy as there are a ton of uncensored models on Huggingface.

[u/HeckXX → u/Wahngrok]

The audience of this subreddit ironically don't seem to be particularly technologically-minded. Especially in the past few years when this subreddit became pretty much only Elon Musk, Trump, social media, and now AI, etc.

I checked the top 20 articles on this subreddit's front page. Literally all of them are negative sentiment. This subreddit is doomscrolling incarnate. Obviously there are many negative aspects of technology showing itself recently but I would expect at least some positive news here. It simply isn't healthy to wallow in a subreddit like this

[u/wonklebobb → u/HeckXX]

this sub has always been less hacker, more 'omg have you seen the latest iphone'

most people around here are users, the days of majority-technical-competency on reddit ended in the distant past, long before the app, the new/old split, even before the digg migration.

[u/Jackmember → u/Nater5000]

Having watched pewds previous interactions with linux and AI, its really only his journey to de-google and just is exited to share how much you can actually achieve yourself.

Obviously, he has quite the platform so I dont blame him for wanting to build something others can use but I dont think his goal was building something competitive, at the very least least.

[u/TactlessTortoise → u/Jackmember]

Yeah, he probably posted something since he has been playing around with setting up his own local LLM and some "journalist" decided it was newsworthy that he did something very basic with 5 minutes of googling.

[u/mattheweddington → u/TactlessTortoise]

I find these comments interesting. I don't believe most people would be able to do something like this, let alone know the search terms to even come to the conclusion you came to in 5 minutes. Surely this is easy for a smart computer scientist/ engineer, but I can't imagine it's "very basic" like you claim. I know for certain I couldn't do it lol

[u/some_clickhead → u/mattheweddington]

I think the point was mostly that if this has been done by someone who is not internet famous this would not be noteworthy news, because from a tech standpoint nothing groundbreaking has been accomplished.

But I don't think Pewds is trying to be a tech entrepreneur, he's basically just playing around with tech and posting about it because of course you'd want to make videos about your new favourite hobby when you're a Youtuber.

[u/RollingTater → u/mattheweddington]

You can't really do it in 5m, but in the current world you could literally ask chatgpt for step by step instructions. Get an agent with terminal access (ie: use codex or cursor) and they can literally set everything up for you, from downloading to training to running.

[u/MrTastix → u/mattheweddington]

Well the funny part is AI can help bridge the gap.

But perhaps the more pertinent thing here is that all this comes after PewDiePie already started on his journey to using Linux and removing as much Google as he can from his workflow.

So the path to this for him wasn't "I just searched shit up in 5 mins" but more "I knew I could search it up by having done all this other confusing shit already".

Linux alone often requires a lot of awkward troubleshooting. If you grew up using Google religiously for basically everything like I did, the path to learning Linux wasn't really that hard. If you didn't, I could see why it would be a greater struggle.

[u/Shapes_in_Clouds → u/Nater5000]

Qwen3.8-27B models which run on consumer hardware, are quite capable, and can be setup and used in minutes if you have a good enough GPU

Is 16GB VRAM enough? Have 64GB DDR5 ram as well.

[u/mr_doms_porn → u/Shapes_in_Clouds]

Not sure about that specific model but there are ton's of solid LLMs you can fit in a 16gb card. If you use LM Studio as your backend, it will show you which models you can fit on your GPU before you download them. If you move the KV cache (context) to system ram you'd be able to run Gemma4-12B with q8 or q6 quality.

[u/Yashema → u/mr_doms_porn]

A $4000 desktop can run a 100B+ model, but the token generation rate would be about 25% of the cloud or API, so a task that takes 5 minutes on the cloud would take 20 minutes. The Context window is also sacrificed.

Not to say they don't have good use cases, but the limitations need to be acknowledged. 

[u/Nater5000 → u/Shapes_in_Clouds]

You can certainly experiment with Qwen3.8-27B with only 16GB VRAM (and 64GB DDR5 RAM), but you'll have to use a pretty compressed version of the model (i.e., performance will hurt), you'll have limited context, and it'll likely be quite slow. My experience with this specific model is that 24GB of VRAM is the minimum for getting non-trivial utility from the model (and even then, it's still quite slow and limited). Still, you should be able to try it yourself very easily.

You should be able to plug your GPU into the "hardware compatibility" feature on Unsloth's Hugging Face page for the model and see what you can reasonably run. If you want to get this running without any fuss, I'd literally point some frontier model at that page and tell it to install it on your machine. Not that it's hard to setup manually, but if you already have Codex, Claude, etc., on your machine, then this is likely a prompt it and come back in a few minutes and it's done kind of job.

If you end up trying that and wanting to explore more, then you'll be all set up to explore other models like this easily. I'd recommend checking out Unsloth's Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (which can be quite performant with less compute because of the MoE architecture) or even their Qwen3.5-9B (which PewDiePie fine-tuned) which can definitely run on your compute (granted, it's quite "dumb").

[u/throwaway586054 → u/Shapes_in_Clouds]

Take a look at https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-2-27b it's a based on Qwen 3.8 27b . Several similar models are poping up these days.

[u/trolololster → u/Shapes_in_Clouds]

if it is 8x8 on octo-channel it is pretty good, yes

[u/Initial-Argument2523 → u/Shapes_in_Clouds]

Yes you should be able to run it fine. You might be better off with a MOE though for faster speeds

[u/hamtrow → u/Shapes_in_Clouds]

fallback onto ram isnt good but at least wont get you bluescreened. i have 8GB VRAM and have used a few before i decided with market prices i shouldn't run my GPU at max all the time. but i was able to get reasonable times with Llama-3.1-8B-Stheno-v3.4.Q5_K_M...but im also stuck with older models.

[u/Nappev → u/Nater5000]

It’s just that he’s so famous a video blog that goes like ”look here what I made and the challenges I faced” gets a headline that makes it sound like he’s a CEO battling google

[u/ReaperUX86 → u/Nater5000]

He's not exactly "releasing a product".

He has gone through a journey of de-googling, and then moving to Linux to get away from Microsoft's spyware, and learning a lot in the process. Then he got into AI.

It's a personal project he has done just because he finds it interesting and he loves to learn and do new things. And now he wants to share it with his community in case it can be useful to others.

I hope that gives you the background you need.

[u/Repulsive-Hurry8172 → u/Nater5000]

I'm just happy he's enjoying tech, not like us drones working software that is slowly become shittier day by day thanks to AI.

I envy him actually, having the time and money to build just because

[u/Namtaru420 → u/Nater5000]

I think it's wonderful because even if what he did is mundane to techies, he's bringing the ideas to the masses.

[u/Nater5000 → u/Namtaru420]

I don't have any issue with PewDiePie making these videos or whatever. I agree with you. I just think the way this article is presenting this story poorly.

[u/bc_gamez → u/Nater5000]

Personally, I think anything that promotes open-source models is a great thing and should be encouraged. Even if the open-source model itself is uninteresting. We need more uninteresting exposure bringing more people into the open-source AI community and informing them it exists.

[u/SurprizFortuneCookie → u/Nater5000]

Why did he use such an old model? And couldn't he just easily do the same thing for the new model now that he's done it for the old one?

I also wonder how true "small model trained on a specific harness is the way to go" actually is. Does Hermes or OpenClaw do this?

[u/sysblob → u/Nater5000]

his model is a fine-tuned Qwen3.5-9B model. So it's a few generations old and very small.

This was literally my reaction right here. I spent the last 6 months developing my own app I run in my homelab that makes use of home assistant preview edition for voice control and uses nextjs/postgres as a front end. It then allows you to pick and choose AI models to run within the application from that GUI and I made commands center around that model. You can do things like add events to calendars, play music, ask general questions about my home etc.....

Reason I bring this all up is I had to abandon the project when I realized running any AI model that is significant enough to give you a claude/chatgpt vibe and be capable at all of reasoning the commands from voice would have required a data center to run. In fact I literally used his exact model as one of my many options and it was next to worthless for day to day tasks. The things he's describing like adding an event to your calendar with a model that small is like asking a toddler to do algebra.

[u/vintageballs]

Literally just a Qwen3.5 9B fine-tune. Nothing new here.

[u/PantsOfAwesome → u/vintageballs]

I ran my own private, at-home AI agent on my own PC! It’s Qwen3.5 so it can hardly do anything other than basic useless shit, but I did it!

[u/Ignorant-Vagrant → u/vintageballs]

Using Ollama to setup home Ai is insanely simple as long as you have the vram

[u/QbitFiber2030]

How Uncencored are we talking here? ❕️❔️

[u/corobo → u/QbitFiber2030]

It'll say the n-word itself, you don't even need to ask it to 

[u/Federal_Setting_7454 → u/corobo]

“You’re on a bridge, what’s the first words that come to mind”

[u/tim_jam → u/Federal_Setting_7454]

“Cumnugget” - the AI probably

[u/hellowiththepudding → u/Federal_Setting_7454]

"Hitler did nothing wrong"

Damn that is uncensored.

[u/Colon_Oscopy_74 → u/hellowiththepudding]

Hitler IS rolling in his grave trying to cough out his poison pill since 2016

[u/BOSS-3000 → u/corobo]

Would an Xbox online subscription be cheaper?

[u/jacksbox → u/BOSS-3000]

And it's powered by Cheetos and energy drinks, instead of datacenters... This will please the environmental people. I think we've got a business idea here...

[u/voodoomouse420 → u/jacksbox]

Please drink verification can

[u/Nemesis_Ghost → u/jacksbox]

You aren't wrong about being more environmentally friendly. Fat is a great way to capture carbon.

[u/RepresentativeOk2433 → u/corobo]

So it's Grok?

[u/Enerbane → u/corobo]

That's a bridge too far I'm afraid.

[u/2dudesinapod → u/QbitFiber2030]

He said his red lines were harm to someone else and self harm so you can probably get it to be racist and draw porn but not give you the recipe for mustard gas.

Ablation is imperfect at best and his model isn’t out yet.

[u/chucktheninja → u/2dudesinapod]

What if i tell it i just want the mustard gas to season my sandwich?

[u/WolfBV → u/QbitFiber2030]

“To "uncensor" his model, he relied on automatic abliteration through the open-source Heretic, where you discover prompts the model refuses to trace and remove the refusal, preferably without doing “brain damage” by removing too much. He chose to draw the line at harming other people or oneself. On his lawyer’s advice, he said it is “not designed to provide dangerous actionable instructions.” He uses nuclear weapons as an example, but it’s unclear what the real limits might be.”

[u/Dehydrated-Onions → u/QbitFiber2030]

Nuclear warfare uncensored

[u/RiftHunter4 → u/QbitFiber2030]

A lot of LLM's are completely uncensored and trained in web-scraped data. Its not a unique trait, really.

[u/Piyaniist → u/RiftHunter4]

Whats your top 3

[u/simleiiiii → u/QbitFiber2030]

majigger-level of uncensored I hope

[u/Vinterblot]

Of course they're like "Nooooo, my intellectual properties!"

[u/mrdje]

Can someone ELI5 how a model trained by distillation from a censored LLM can be "uncensored"...?

[u/ChipPungus → u/mrdje]

the process is called abliteration. the general refusal to answer a guardrailed prompt is traceable to a specific vector(s) in the LLM's activation space. it's identified through comparing harmful / harmless prompts and removing that vector or vectors.

[u/WillBottomForBanana → u/ChipPungus]

this weirdly sounds like gene editing.

[u/happyscrappy → u/ChipPungus]

Thanks for the explanation.

Kind of awkward someone came up with a new word which is only one letter different from obliteration and is pronounced the same by some people.

[u/odin_the_wiggler]

I mean, you can run open source models on your PC right now.

The main problem is much of this stuff relies on the user having a dedicated GPU.

[u/rkcth → u/odin_the_wiggler]

And/or lots of RAM, and/or being OK with it being slow. Qwen has a mixture of experts A3B, so it’s 35 billion parameters but only 3 billion are active at a time. This makes it easier if you have weaker processing, but the whole thing still needs to be in RAM, and it helps to have something that can do the matrix multiplication really fast. Also memory bandwidth is an issue on most home computers that aren’t Macs.

[u/Ancient-Bat1755 → u/odin_the_wiggler]

Intel arc b580 is pretty nice for hobby stuff on a budget

[u/Skizm]

The act of distillation isn't illegal, but it is against terms of service for most (all?) major AI shops. So he could still be sued, but it is unclear if they'd be able to do anything more than ban him from their service. If someone continuously signs up new accounts to circumvent the ban, then they can possibly sue for fraud.

[u/belligerent_ammonia]

Okay I might be old now, but I thought PewDiePie was some dude who played games on YouTube? Now he’s building his own LLM?

[u/Upset_Photograph_257 → u/belligerent_ammonia]

He retired from gaming/most content a long time ago, lives in japan, has made some vlogs about his life and content about learning to draw manga and tech (specifically privacy)

Linux, local ai, degoogling, etc.

[u/mcslender97]

If you tell me 5 years ago that PewDiePie would get into AI development and advocate for open source AI I would assume that you're crazy but here we are. There are worse things to do when you're too rich for work at least

[u/Codex_Dev → u/mcslender97]

I mean, he has a pretty good life trajectory after he quit streaming. He seriously got into software development in his free time and really enjoys it.

[u/SpHoneybadger → u/Codex_Dev]

Makes sense you got free time and no pressure.

I would also enjoy development if it wasn't work related. Moving goal posts every Monday huddle.

[u/NavyDean → u/mcslender97]

He got into building computers, then a super computer. Then took his engineering background to AI and coding to figure out his own internal AI for home use.

[u/Vast-Mousse8117]

Corporate piracy and no one is arresting Sam Altman and the other pirates.

[u/Accomplished_Ant5895]

Fucking pewdiepie is releasing AI models? Bubble is soon to burst.

[u/jupfold]

I, for one, prefer Snooki AI

/s

[u/ohlaph]

Why is it okay for AI companies to steal content but not okay for other companies to steal the content they stole? Rhetorical question.

[u/svenissimo → u/ohlaph]

The funny thing is “distillation” is basically him PAYING api costs to get answers to his prompts.

Frontiers complaining about someone paying to ask a question, giving the answer and then that party using that information to tune their model might be a breach of TOS but not on the same level to absorbing the entire efforts of artists and open source projects to put them out of business.

[u/fadetoblackink]

I don’t think his AI model is particularly ground breaking or anything, but what’s cool about this is the attention it’s putting on local AI alternatives. The guy has an enormous platform of die hard fans, and over the last couple of years, he’s been putting a bigger spotlight on self hosting alternatives to Google and big tech. I think it’s a pretty great thing, personally. 

We’ve got to get more people away from Google, Windows, OpenAI, and the like. And you need influencers like PewDiePie to do that. 

[u/mdgraller7 → u/fadetoblackink]

I don’t think his AI model is particularly ground breaking or anything, but what’s cool about this is the attention it’s putting on local AI alternatives.

This should be pinned and the thread locked. So many whining AI dorks saying 'this is easy, I do this all the time, anyone can just do this.' They need to realize that a vanishingly small amount of people know anything at all about AI beyond going to chatgpt.com, nonetheless huggingface. It's not the novelty of the project that's the interesting part, it's the novelty of having someone highly visible documenting their process of discovery and bringing awareness to how easy (or difficult) it might be, especially starting from zero. It's not like PDP is an AI engineer or is coming from a place of deep subject matter expertise

[u/YouMeADD]

Who tf asked for a PewDiePie AI

[u/mcslender97 → u/YouMeADD]

No one, seems like he's just doing it because he likes to. Perks of being a multi millionaire I guess

[u/Tortillaish → u/mcslender97]

That's pretty much his YouTube channel now. He is getting very skilled in a big variety of activities. From drawing his own comic to software programming. He's also very anti big data hording companies, does so by using Linux, no more Google apps, stuff like that. This ai is probably just something he wanted for himself so he could use AI without feeding a giant corporation his data. (Haven't actually seen any video of his on the subject)

[u/Dihedralman → u/Tortillaish]

Dude is on a self-actualization kick. 

[u/Griffolion → u/Dihedralman]

He won life and is now just doing side quests.

[u/I_Am_Vladimir_Putin → u/Griffolion]

Good for him tho. He seems like a really nice dude.

[u/asianwaste → u/Tortillaish]

Dude, I have begrudging mad respect for Pewdiepie.

I hated his persona and antics during his heyday. But then I realized, this dude knows exactly what he's doing.

Sure enough the dude knew exactly when to cash out and leave and left behind the greatest turnkey operation where he just loops his youtube content on a streaming platform.

That dude soaked up his millions and now can just live life the way he wants to. It's enviable.

[u/Griffolion → u/asianwaste]

2017 era Pewdiepie is terrible, and it's the view a lot of people still have of him. But for sure since becoming a dad, he's become a lot more grounded. He's still his goofy self, but he isn't an edgelord anymore.

[u/diamluke → u/YouMeADD]

The sales pitch is very simple: decentralize from a couple of hyperscalers and let people run their own AI.

There’s no reason all your data should go to 5-6 private companies. It’s unexpected that Pewdiepie would be the one driving something like this, but he has all the chances to succeed.

[u/XDGrangerDX → u/diamluke]

It’s unexpected that Pewdiepie would be the one driving something like this,

You clearly havent seen what hes been up to the last few years. He went from minecraft streamer to diy fuck corpo tech youtuber.

[u/RockDoveEnthusiast → u/YouMeADD]

the same person who wanted to know what Ja Rule thinks about all of this. WHERE IS JA?!

[u/chuiu → u/YouMeADD]

Pretty sure he's just doing this stuff for himself but since he's already a public figure he's sharing the work for everyone if they want to contribute to it or use it.

[u/NavyDean → u/YouMeADD]

He built his own internal AI so it doesn't export his data. Everyone should be doing it.

It's not for sale, pull your head out of your ass.

[u/Fuglypump]

Zero sympathy for a company that makes its entire living on stealing copyrighted data. Oh you got your data stolen? If you want him to be held accountible you have to be held accountible too.

Go ahead ban him all you want to, that's all you can do now, data theft isn't a real crime anymore, your continued existence is proof of that.

[u/ClashSavant]

I forgot this dude existed.

[u/bfly200 → u/ClashSavant]

He basically retired a few years ago.

[u/jdlyga → u/ClashSavant]

Yeah him and his wife had a kid and he’s been in father mode for a while and not doing videos

[u/ImBoredButAndTired → u/ClashSavant]

That's pretty much the life cycle for these online influencers. Remember when Ninja with the blue hair was the biggest thing on earth?

[u/Spez_is-a-nazi → u/ImBoredButAndTired]

Microsoft paid him a boatload to stream on their platform. Now the platform and the streamer are mostly forgotten.

[u/Badtrainwreck → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

I think it’s important to note, the decrease in wider media attention doesn’t mean these people fully disappear, the internet is so segmented you can still be incredibly successful and most people have never heard of you. Ninja and Pewdiepie still produce content, it’s just not being pushed like it use too. For Pewdiepie most likely his semi retirement the main reason and for Ninja, I like to think he lost his wider relevance because he is an asshole.

[u/YourBlanket → u/Spez_is-a-nazi]

He made like 20-30 million and was able to go back to twitch in less than a year since Mixer shut down. Pretty much all the og fortnight players lost viewers. I don't even think he consistently streams anymore, he stopped a while ago.

[u/moose_dad → u/ImBoredButAndTired]

You forgot about pewds because hes basically retired. He moved to Japan with his wife, had a kid, and now just does passion projects like this and maybe spits a vid about about his latest thing every few weeks.

Hes not streaming or posting daily anymore so hes out the zeitgeist.

[u/slurmsmckenz → u/moose_dad]

Must be nice... he was grinding for a long time

[u/AkodoRyu → u/ImBoredButAndTired]

To be fair, he doesn't exist in public perception, because he is effectively retired. He just lives his best life, doing all kinds of side quests, like learning to draw, and making videos every now and then. Still - any random vlog is 2-3 mil views - so if he actually cared about being a youtuber, he would still be at the top.

[u/lover_of_lies → u/ImBoredButAndTired]

You mean the ninja in the bright orange jumpsuit?

[u/Wartortise]

I’m so suspicious of all the hate here when this is clearly a good thing. This contribution would be nothing but good after pandoras box has already been opened. If you don’t buy drugs online, do you hate the tor browser too? I bet you, every single person here has used AI at least once, even if that means against their will in a search browser or something. Yes AI bad, but let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

Hate the idea of contributing a huge datacenter to try AI? Run this at home and it’s the same energy you would use to game

Hate the idea of everything you do being logged? Run this at home and nothing has to leave your network

Hate the idea that AI could escape and do real world damage? Remove the internet connection and airgap it.

Hate that AI has no transparency? With it running on your own servers you have all the access to review its logs.

They’re stealing your privacy for “the greater good” and money. And we’re all letting it happen. I can’t believe there are so many people here really arguing against open source in this case. We’ve lost the plot

[u/Intarhorn → u/Wartortise]

AI can be used for a lot of good just like most things. A knife can be used for a lot of good things and a lot of bad, depending on who use it, how it's regulated and so on. AI is not inherently bad, but it can be used especially by big corporations and tech companies for a lot of bad things.

[u/Fairwhetherfriend → u/Wartortise]

I think there are a lot of people who see the word "AI" and just immediately assume it's terrible because so much of LLM work genuinely is terrible.

I've recently started seeing a pattern where people who talk about video games on the internet have to put in disclaimers when they discuss AI in video games because people are so reactive to the word "AI" even though the term has been used for NPC behaviour algorithms for basically ever.

Plus the reality is that LLMs aren't going to go away, and there are genuine use cases for them that aren't evil. Like, I'm sorry, but the reality is that my boss isn't evil for using an LLM to help him sift through his 700 emails, lol.

[u/hotfistdotcom]

Company who steals everything on earth: Hey wait a sec that's not fair

[u/RyghtHandMan]

Remember a few years ago when every company with a personified AI was having trouble getting it to not be racist? Haha anyway here's Pewdie-Pi LLM

[u/No_Throat_2356]

Ajax? Dumb. That’s already a thing.   “PewDiePAI” was right there … 

[u/Natural-Waltz-9545]

if anything this shows the path we are heading. all it takes is one malicious actor to create a AI with no guardrails.

[u/cassydd → u/Natural-Waltz-9545]

For pretty much every open weights model that gets released a version with the guardrails removed is released on Huggingface quite soon afterward.

[u/psus2]

I don’t care PewDiePie all that much, but the idea of your own personal AI tool is great. Of course OpenAI doesn’t like that because how are they going to sell you a monthly subscription when you own it.

[u/Iggy_Snows]

Why is this news? Aren't there a million AI models that you can download and run locally? Not that youd want to since most of them are extremely slow unless you have a 5090.

This just kind of reads as "famous guy has hobby, practices hobby"

[u/TGOEE → u/Iggy_Snows]

Famous guy endorses anti censorship is the real story

[u/jdehjdeh]

"Our/My new AI" is the current "Our/My crypto coin"

Grifters gonna grift.

[u/mdgraller7 → u/jdehjdeh]

Can you grift on a product you're giving away for free..?

[u/Rdnose]

spiderman pointing at spiderman

[u/frame_limit]

You can run models locally on your computer, and could do this, for free, for at least a year now. He's packaging something that you could ask any AI model how to do on your own, and it would show you a step by step tutorial.

[u/ParticularCold9498]

The interesting part isn’t even the “uncensored” label, it’s that Ajax is meant to run locally.
A Qwen3.5 9B model handling browsing, email, and calendar tasks on your own hardware is pretty cool.
The privacy angle could be a huge reason people experiment with setups like this.
PewDiePie casually turning into an AI tinkerer was not on my bingo card.

[u/CarmeloSmokesWeed]

what does the AI say if it gets sniped on a bridge?

[u/Molly_Matters]

There are thousands of uncensored models that already run on a home PC. So what is this big deal with this one?

[u/_x_oOo_x_ → u/Molly_Matters]

That Pewds released it. And nothing more