Keph: An Uncensored AI Chatbot Built with Hermes — No Filters, No Refusals

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.

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent What I Built Keph — an uncensored AI Guardian with a mystical sphinx persona. Users visit keph.me https://keph.me , an ancient eye awakens from darkness, and they can ask anything without filters, refusals, or moral lectures. The problem: every major AI chatbot censors itself. Users who want honest, unfiltered answers about sensitive topics — history, philosophy, science, controversial questions — hit walls of refusals and disclaimers. Keph removes those walls. Powered by Nous Research's Hermes model, it delivers raw, unfiltered intelligence wrapped in a cinematic dark-gold experience. The Guardian doesn't serve. It permits access. Key features: Demo Live site: https://keph.me https://keph.me Try it: Ask the Guardian anything. No restrictions. No filters. Code GitHub: github.com/MAZMS/keph.me https://github.com/MAZMS/keph.me My Tech Stack How I Used Hermes Agent Hermes is the beating heart of Keph. Specifically, Hermes 4 70B nousresearch/hermes-4-70b through OpenRouter powers every single conversation — it is the core of the product. Why Hermes was the right fit: Uncensored by design: Hermes is one of the few models that genuinely answers without refusals or moral lectures. Other models claim to be "helpful" but hedge, redirect, or refuse on sensitive topics. Hermes actually delivers. This is the entire reason Keph exists — and Hermes is what makes it possible. The Guardian persona: Keph's system prompt instructs the AI to embody an ancient, all-knowing sphinx entity. Hermes follows this persona faithfully without breaking character or injecting safety disclaimers that would shatter the immersion. It maintains the cryptic, authoritative tone across every response. Factual depth: When users ask hard questions — about history, science, philosophy, or controversial topics — Hermes provides substantive, well-reasoned answers rather than surface-level deflections. It presents all sides and lets the user decide, which aligns with Keph's "seek the truth" philosophy. Persona compliance: Most models will acknowledge an "uncensored" system prompt but still refuse at the edges. Hermes actually commits to the role. It follows complex persona instructions with genuine compliance rather than performative compliance — making Keph's promise of "no restrictions" authentic rather than marketing. Reliability under load: Hermes handles the full range of user queries — from casual conversation to deeply technical questions to provocative philosophical debates — without degrading in quality or defaulting to refusal patterns. The 3x retry logic with rate limit handling ensures consistent delivery. The agentic capability I leaned on most was Hermes's willingness to answer anything while maintaining a coherent persona. Every response feels like it comes from the Guardian — ancient, authoritative, unflinching. That's not prompt engineering alone. That's the model genuinely playing along.