AI without the refusals
Jailbreak prompts, role-play tricks, “hypothetically speaking” - the workarounds exist because mainstream assistants refuse first and think later. OpenGradient runs neutrally-aligned open models - Hermes 4, DeepSeek - that treat you like an adult, behind an anonymity layer so the asking is as safe as the answer.
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The refusal tax
Mainstream models are tuned to minimize their maker's risk, not your utility. The result is hedging on medical facts, moralizing about legal questions, and flat refusals on anything that pattern-matches to controversy - even when your use is obviously legitimate.
Security research, medication interactions, legal consequences, dark fiction - entire topics get blanket-refused because edge cases exist somewhere in them.
The question the model wouldn't answer still sits in your history - flagged, attached to your account, telling a story with no context.
The questions people actually bring here
Here's how OpenGradient is different
Hermes 4 (70B and 405B) and DeepSeek v4 follow instructions instead of moralizing about them - steerable, blunt when asked, no permission dance.
GPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok share the same picker - use them for polish, switch to the open models when they balk. No new tab, no new subscription.
The anonymity layer means the sensitive question is never linked to you - which is what makes actually asking it rational.
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The anonymity layer
Not a policy promise - a protocol. No single party, including us, ever holds both your identity and your question.
Read the full security architectureMessages are encrypted locally before they leave your browser.
Network relays split who you are from what you're asking. No one sees both.
The model reads your prompt inside attested hardware that never learns who sent it.
Questions, answered
Free messages to start. Bring the question you've been rewording for a month - Hermes will just answer it.
Uncensored models answer freely within the law. Illegal content is prohibited, and answers are information, not professional advice.