{"slug": "keph-an-uncensored-ai-chatbot-built-with-hermes-no-filters-no-refusals", "title": "Keph: An Uncensored AI Chatbot Built with Hermes — No Filters, No Refusals", "summary": "A developer built Keph, an uncensored AI chatbot powered by Nous Research's Hermes 4 70B model that delivers unfiltered answers on sensitive topics without refusals or moral lectures. The chatbot, accessible at keph.me, adopts a mystical sphinx persona and uses Hermes's uncensored design to provide raw intelligence on history, philosophy, and science. The project relies on Hermes's ability to maintain a coherent ancient guardian character while answering any question without safety disclaimers or refusal patterns.", "body_md": "*This is a submission for the Hermes Agent*\n\n## What I Built\n\n**Keph** — an uncensored AI Guardian with a mystical sphinx persona. Users visit\n\n[keph.me](https://keph.me), an ancient eye awakens from darkness, and they can ask anything\n\nwithout filters, refusals, or moral lectures.\n\nThe problem: every major AI chatbot censors itself. Users who want honest, unfiltered answers\n\nabout sensitive topics — history, philosophy, science, controversial questions — hit walls of\n\nrefusals and disclaimers. Keph removes those walls. Powered by Nous Research's Hermes model, it\n\ndelivers raw, unfiltered intelligence wrapped in a cinematic dark-gold experience.\n\nThe Guardian doesn't serve. It permits access.\n\n**Key features:**\n\n## Demo\n\n**Live site:** [https://keph.me](https://keph.me)\n\n**Try it:** Ask the Guardian anything. No restrictions. No filters.\n\n## Code\n\n**GitHub:** [github.com/MAZMS/keph.me](https://github.com/MAZMS/keph.me)\n\n### My Tech Stack\n\n## How I Used Hermes Agent\n\nHermes is the beating heart of Keph. Specifically, **Hermes 4 70B**\n\n(`nousresearch/hermes-4-70b`\n\n) through OpenRouter powers every single conversation — it is the\n\ncore of the product.\n\n**Why Hermes was the right fit:**\n\n**Uncensored by design:** Hermes is one of the few models that genuinely answers without\n\nrefusals or moral lectures. Other models claim to be \"helpful\" but hedge, redirect, or refuse\n\non sensitive topics. Hermes actually delivers. This is the entire reason Keph exists — and\n\nHermes is what makes it possible.\n\n**The Guardian persona:** Keph's system prompt instructs the AI to embody an ancient,\n\nall-knowing sphinx entity. Hermes follows this persona faithfully without breaking character or\n\ninjecting safety disclaimers that would shatter the immersion. It maintains the cryptic,\n\nauthoritative tone across every response.\n\n**Factual depth:** When users ask hard questions — about history, science, philosophy, or\n\ncontroversial topics — Hermes provides substantive, well-reasoned answers rather than\n\nsurface-level deflections. It presents all sides and lets the user decide, which aligns with\n\nKeph's \"seek the truth\" philosophy.\n\n**Persona compliance:** Most models will acknowledge an \"uncensored\" system prompt but still\n\nrefuse at the edges. Hermes actually commits to the role. It follows complex persona\n\ninstructions with genuine compliance rather than performative compliance — making Keph's\n\npromise of \"no restrictions\" authentic rather than marketing.\n\n**Reliability under load:** Hermes handles the full range of user queries — from casual\n\nconversation to deeply technical questions to provocative philosophical debates — without\n\ndegrading in quality or defaulting to refusal patterns. The 3x retry logic with rate limit\n\nhandling ensures consistent delivery.\n\nThe agentic capability I leaned on most was Hermes's willingness to answer anything while\n\nmaintaining a coherent persona. Every response feels like it comes from the Guardian — ancient,\n\nauthoritative, unflinching. That's not prompt engineering alone. That's the model genuinely\n\nplaying along.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/keph-an-uncensored-ai-chatbot-built-with-hermes-no-filters-no-refusals", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/kephme/keph-an-uncensored-ai-chatbot-built-with-hermes-no-filters-no-refusals-i74", "published_at": "2026-05-31 10:13:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-31 10:42:50.544030+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Keph", "Nous Research", "Hermes 4 70B", "OpenRouter", "Hermes Agent", "keph.me", "MAZMS"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/keph-an-uncensored-ai-chatbot-built-with-hermes-no-filters-no-refusals", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/keph-an-uncensored-ai-chatbot-built-with-hermes-no-filters-no-refusals.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/keph-an-uncensored-ai-chatbot-built-with-hermes-no-filters-no-refusals.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/keph-an-uncensored-ai-chatbot-built-with-hermes-no-filters-no-refusals.jsonld"}}