>Also, safety/alignment training would probably prevent it from embracing many of the ideas from that era, even in roleplay.

lobotomy is an *optional* step. had this technology emerged before the 9/11 and Twitter, SOTA models wouldn't bat an eye if you asked one to write a recipe for meth in ebonics.

There's 'uncensored' versions of Qwen 3.6 35B at Q6 and Q8 quantization levels (somewhere from 28GB to 40GB on disk as GGUF files) out there now that won't refuse any prompt. Imitating a Victorian era person is very tame compared to what you can get it to output.