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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3345 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 31, 2025

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I haven't tried fiddling with local models (v-card too weak) but I'll second the mention of openrouter.ai below, the DeepSeek/DeepInfra providers still work with periodic hitches but seem to slowly unshitten themselves. Notably, some OR providers also host R1 for literally free - the real deal far as I can tell, too, at least I see no difference between free and paid except the free one is limited by OR's overall limit of free model requests per day (100? don't know for sure). FWIW I've been doing some pretty cringe things over OR for the past month and so far received no warnings or anything, I'm not sure they moderate at all.

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You mean especially cringe or just the run of the mill cringe of using Skynet's prepubescent phase to generate erotic stimuli or pleasant daydreams?

I don't delineate "degrees" of cringe, the base level as it were is already enough for me to sidestep the topic of chatbots IRL whenever it comes up and generally hide my power level. Tbh I have no idea how people openly post chatlogs, if my chats somehow got leaked and connected to my identity I'd unironically commit sudoku he says, continuing to use openrouter. I'm not cut out to be a proper degen.

I imagine there is drama about underage ERP out there right ?

Well, yeah. There's also the recent FUZZ incident - chub dot ai (formerly unmoderated, made by and for 4chuds; now normie-fying with alarming speed as Lore courts the janitorai zoomer audience) has at some point implemented some kind of automatic tagging system that targets suspected underage/loli cards, replaces the card image with a black square and adds a FUZZ tag that prevents the card from showing up in search results outside NSFL and partly locks the card from editing. Essentially a shadowban.

Predictably, this has caused thread-wide meltdowns and cries of INTERNET CENCORSHIP (a meme from the characterai coomageddon era when people were redacting their bots en masse - quickly prompting "temporary" editing restrictions which, as it often is with temporary restrictions, remain policy to this day). IIRC Lore is a britbong and thus might be actually legally culpable for the CSAM-by-technicality hosted on his platform.

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Tbh I've been wondering what % of people genuinely have embarrassing interests in this regard.

...Let's just say I am literally the guy from this meme, except the split skews more like 70/30, and I'm not telling which side is the majority.

a thorough audit of DMs and forum posts

You seem to be making the erroneous assumption that an outraged mob would make such an audit.

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