How to Run Uncensored AI Locally: Dolphin 3 (Llama 3.1-Based) Setup Guide (December 2025)
Hey everyone, if you're tired of censored cloud AIs refusing basic queries, running an uncensored model locally is the move. Dolphin 3.0 from Cognitive Computations is one of the best uncensored fine-tunes on Llama 3.1—highly compliant, no built-in moral filters, great for coding, reasoning, and general use. It runs fully offline, private, and under your control. Straight up: Uncensored means it follows instructions exactly, including edgy or harmful ones. You're 100% responsible—use ethically and legally. As of now, the top ways are Ollama (dead simple) or LM Studio (best GUI). Both free, cross-platform. Method 1: Ollama (Easiest for Most People) Ollama auto-handles everything. Install Ollama Grab it from https://ollama.com/download . Works on Windows, macOS, Linux. Pull the Model Terminal: text ollama run dolphin-llama3 (This gets the 8B version, ~5GB download, runs on modest hardware.) For the stronger 70B (if you have beefy GPU): text ollama run dolphin-llama...