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is an AI storyteller / text generator that's currently in paid open beta phase.It works like a collaborative writing exercise: You enter text, press send, and the AI continues your story for you for a couple of sentences. Rinse and repeat.
You might actually have heard of AIDungeon, NAI's competitor, who recently had multiple scandals/controversies, ranging from a disastrously implemented censorship filter and subsequent accusations of hypocrisy when its finetuning data was analyzed, to major privacy concerns, with the developers openly admitting to accessing user stories. Obviously, users were pissed, and some competitors spawned - enter NovelAI.
Due to the above situation, NAI's core philosophy seems to be privacy. I encourage you to still read the
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yourself, but they seem to pretty clearly state that the above will not and can not happen to NAI.NAI's open beta launched on June 16th, and after some hiccups the service seems to be stable now, with devs openly communicating their progress on both
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and
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, as well as a
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.Due to the costs of hosting and maintaining an AI model, as well as the absence of ads on their site, their service is paid:
Subscription Tiers:
Tablet: 10$ / month
Scroll: 15$ / month
Opus: 25$ / month
For details of what the tiers do, refer to the FAQs on the aforementioned platforms. Also, be aware that "there are currently no plans for a free version of NovelAI at this time".
These tiers should not be confused with
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tiers though, since Patreon tiers don't give access to the service, they are purely donations to support the devs.What I will say about the sub tiers is that there are two AI models, with Sigurd being the one to soon replace Calliope for all users. Currently though, Sigurd is an experimental feature for Opus subscribers.
Also please note that despite me posting this in an NSFW context, NAI is openly distancing themselves from user content. This means they are not hosting/promoting it on any official channels. Thus the game is theoretically SFW, although you are obviously free to write whatever you want in your stories, and well, the AI will continue whatever you give it, no matter SFW or NSFW status (the finetuning data even includes some literotica as far as I'm aware). But do keep that in mind when discussing the game elsewhere.
Now some formalities:
Controls are mouse for the UI, and keyboard for writing, although I do remember hearing something about hotkeys.
Fetishes included: pretty much whatever you give it. Mainstream stuff that is likely included in the finetuning data works best ofc, but you can give sort of "stage directions" with the author notes and []-brackets, read up on the
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or various socials posts on how to optimize your outputs. I've had luck with some very niche stuff that way on Sigurd.UKB:
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RW:
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Kalmarr's Wiki:
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Rinter's wiki:
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Rentry collection of modules:
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Rentry collection of Lorebooks:
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Rentry collection of settings:
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The Unofficial Novel AI Knowledge Base
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Unofficial Novel AI Community Repository
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Official Website
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