Uncensored Pony XL and NSFW slider debut on HuggingFace with zero traction
Two unrestricted Pony XL artifacts appeared on HuggingFace this week from user liangwc25, both carrying not-for-all-audiences flags and zero downloads at press time.
Two new Pony XL artifacts landed on HuggingFace on July 9: an uncensored checkpoint and a separate NSFW slider, both uploaded by liangwc25. The checkpoint, labeled uncensored-ponyxl, appears to be a safety-ablated variant of the popular Pony Diffusion XL base model. The slider, listed as nsfw-slider, functions as a LoRA or control mechanism for adjusting NSFW intensity at inference time. Both carry not-for-all-audiences tags and sit at zero downloads and zero likes as of publication, with no model cards or technical documentation visible yet.
Pony XL remains one of the most widely fine-tuned Stable Diffusion XL derivatives in the uncensored image-synthesis community, prized for its anime and furry-art capabilities. Uncensored checkpoints typically strip the CLIP safety classifier or train on unrestricted datasets, letting users generate content that would trigger commercial API guardrails. Sliders—popularized by the Concept Sliders project—offer runtime control over semantic axes like realism, lighting, or content rating without retraining the entire model. If the NSFW slider works as advertised, it would let users dial explicitness up or down within a single workflow, a feature that has proven popular in Civitai's top-downloaded LoRAs.
The lack of downloads and documentation suggests these are either brand-new uploads or placeholder repos awaiting a proper release. Model cards, sample outputs, and usage instructions are standard for any checkpoint or LoRA that expects community adoption. Without them, even experienced ComfyUI and A1111 users will skip the weights in favor of better-documented alternatives. If liangwc25 adds example images, training details, or a ComfyUI workflow to either page, adoption could accelerate quickly in the Pony XL fine-tuning scene.
