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Can someone describe what's wrong with AI Dungeon at the moment? Tried it out, and it seemed fine, NSFW content worked.

Is it just privacy concerns?
What this post says, plus they're run by religious mor(m)ons who literally think they're doing good for the world by censoring private non-con stories involving fictional characters.
 

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Is it just privacy concerns?
There's also , which IMO is particularly damning from a purely technical perspective, irrespective of any other concerns.

TL;DR: AID was trained on sources containing the kind of content they're now trying to censor with simplistic tools that are unsuited to the task. And further, it's questionable at best that any post hoc efforts could overcome the consequences of this training.
 
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It still seems like the best option if you don't want to pay.

When it comes to privacy, you can just create a seperate e-mail that you only use for AI Dungeon, so it's not really connected to you.

Until a free alternative comes out, it seems like it's wrong to call AID just shit. Nothing is perfect, and in the end majority of people use Google despite privacy concerns even when it, unlike AI Dungeon, does have free, ongoing alternatives. Because in the end paying with some of your privacy for good service instead of your cash is usually preferable.
 
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Can someone describe what's wrong with AI Dungeon at the moment? Tried it out, and it seemed fine, NSFW content worked.

Is it just privacy concerns?
Sharing your stories and data with multiple 3rd parties.
Banning and insulting for nothing or even by content AI generated itself.
Degrading quality - current dragon is worse than half year ago. Most probably it is not dragon anymore.

"'seperate e-mail " - yeah, and don't pay for quasi-Dragon, because payment leaves traces.
" it's wrong to call AID just shit " - it is shit, absolutely. Worse version is free, but still a shit.

Please go back to topic of this thread - NovelAI
 
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"'seperate e-mail " - yeah, and don't pay for quasi-Dragon, because payment leaves traces.
Well yeah, as I said, it's good for people that don't want to pay.

It's not shit when there is literally no better alternative for that aspect.

It is pretty much the topic, since AI Dungeon is even mentioned in the OP, and NovelAI is often presented as better alternative to AID.

But it's still only the alternative for the people that pay, AID is argaubly the best choice for people that don't want to pay, or would like to try out what AI storyteller even is before they commit, since NovelAI disappointingly doesn't plan to have a free version, according to post.
 
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Well yeah, as I said, it's good for people that don't want to pay.
Since NAI requires payment, it stands to reason that anyone who's seriously interested in it is prepared to pay. So whereas you see a choice between free AID and paid NAI, NAI users (and prospective users) presumably see it as a choice between paid AID and paid NAI. And privacy concerns probably factor into the decision. So to summarize:

You: unwilling to pay, not concerned about privacy
NAI users: willing to pay, probably concerned about privacy

Not a recipe for a productive discussion.
 
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Since NAI requires payment, it stands to reason that anyone who's seriously interested in it is prepared to pay. So whereas you see a choice between free AID and paid NAI, NAI users (and prospective users) presumably see it as a choice between paid AID and paid NAI. And privacy concerns probably factor into the decision. So to summarize:

You: unwilling to pay, not concerned about privacy
NAI users: willing to pay, probably concerned about privacy

Not a recipe for a productive discussion.
Yeah, but not everyone reading this post is someone seriously interested in NovelAI. I speak from experience, I only learned that AI storytellers, including AI Dungeon, can handle NSFW after reading this. From the name, I assumed AID is just for generic RPG scenarios and never got interested.

AI storytellers are still pretty novel and niche, and AID threat is locked, so people coming here may be people who are just interested in the idea after hearing about it first, and knowing that the free alternative is there, and does still work, could be helpful.

EDIT: Okay, nevermind about that, I looked at a wrong threat. AID isn't closed.
 
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A question for the experienced folks: what are your thoughts/experiences on "using NAI (or AID when you used it) as a game" ie. setting up a basic framework using A/N, LB and maybe modules and mostly interacting as a character speaking or taking actions?

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Here's some more resources that may be of interest:




Note: this is a copypasta by someone other than OccultSage, so may not be the 'definitive version'. Trying to figure that out.

This is more to my specific interests:
 
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There is V4 engine released, now even better!
Sigurd v4 & two new experimental AI Models!
Today we are introducing a significant improvement of our trained GPT-J 6B Sigurd model to its fourth iteration: Sigurd v4. Sigurd v4‘s training dataset has been refined and cleaned and will now return higher consistency outputs. These changes elevate Sigurd to new heights in its generation outputs and coherence.

We will release Sigurd v4 to our Opus tier subscribers first, with a rollout to all subscription tiers in 7 days, when it will replace the current Sigurd v3 model. In order to use Sigurd v4, you have to manually select the model under your Account Settings in the main menu.

What does this mean for AI Modules? All of our Default AI Modules have been retrained and greatly improved upon! All of your Custom AI Modules are going to continue working with the improved Sigurd v4 version as well! However the logit probabilities that come out of Sigurd v4 differ from the previous v3 version, so some logit biases in your existing stories might need to be readjusted in order to get the same results as before!

Custom AI Module Training: While Opus users will have exclusive access to Sigurd v4 in the week before the full rollout, lower subscription tiers that train a new module during this period will automatically create a v4 trained module which is backwards compatible with v3.

But there’s more! We’d like to introduce two completely new Experimental AI models! Opus Tier Exclusive Release Snek: a GPT-J 6B model that is finetuned on the python programming language and can generate Python code. You can use it to assist you in web development, data science, creating software prototypes and more. This model is exclusive to our Opus tier subscription level.

All Subscription Tiers Genji: a GPT-J 6B model finetuned from English to Japanese, using our Japanese storytelling dataset. For additional details and samples, make sure to check out our blog post here:
 

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RUMOR, FYI: EleutherAI is 60% far (~7weeks left) in training 20B model. Target - 150K steps. Pace: ~10k/week.
NAI's work is based on EAI's work. It is needed and NAI fully dependable on EAI work. NAI's work is done after having EAI results.
 
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RUMOR, FYI: EleutherAI is 60% far (~7weeks left) in training 20B model. Target - 150K steps. Pace: ~10k/week.
NAI's work is based on EAI's work. It is needed and NAI fully dependable on EAI work. NAI's work is done after having EAI results.
I don't understand what you mean?
 

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Cool info!
I don't understand what you mean?
NAI will be better. NAI is a service using machine-learnin-powered, neurolinguistics, text predictor. It uses "AI" engine made by volunteers called EleutherAI.

Models have "parameters" parameter, comparable somewhat to synapses from our brain. More parameters/synapses - the better. Current model is 6Billion parameter, and new one will be 20Billion one.

Service is expected to produce higher quality output - better stories, faking "understanding" something, "having" some plans or concepts, confusing things less etc.

Aside of just bigger model, EAI guys made code better in past six months.

So I am hyped for mire "clever" AI :)
 

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Cool info!

NAI will be better. NAI is a service using machine-learnin-powered, neurolinguistics, text predictor. It uses "AI" engine made by volunteers called EleutherAI.

Models have "parameters" parameter, comparable somewhat to synapses from our brain. More parameters/synapses - the better. Current model is 6Billion parameter, and new one will be 20Billion one.

Service is expected to produce higher quality output - better stories, faking "understanding" something, "having" some plans or concepts, confusing things less etc.

Aside of just bigger model, EAI guys made code better in past six months.

So I am hyped for mire "clever" AI :)
Oh OK... so NAI will update the engine from Sigurd to EAI..
Do you have the exact date when the update will be?
 

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Oh OK... so NAI will update the engine from Sigurd to EAI..
Do you have the exact date when the update will be?
Sigurd is also based on EAI work. All NAI models are based on EAI work tbh.
No exact dates, some speculations. It should be around two months.
 

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So if EAI will be release in two months, let's say early Mar22. How long will NAI take to update its engine? a month or two?
 

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So if EAI will be release in two months, let's say early Mar22. How long will NAI take to update its engine? a month or two?
EAI may finish work during Feb2022, NAI will release raw engine as an option ASAP, while preparing finetuned engine will take another 1-2 weeks. (rumors)
 

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NAI did not tell us if it is 6B,13B,20B,AI21,175B model or something.
Euterpe, our newest and most powerful experimental storyteller AI model, is now in the Alpha stage and ready to be your muse!
A muse, the goddess of lyric poetry, and the latest experimental storyteller model to join the NovelAI family.

In order to use Euterpe as your model of choice, select the model in the AI Model section of your story settings, or set it to be your default AI Model in your Defaults Settings.

Note: Euterpe's finetune has not yet been fully trained and at this point, after a week of training, can best be compared to the early version stages of Sigurd.
This new experimental AI model is planned to be an Opus tier exclusive for the foreseeable future.

As part of adding this new model, we are introducing AI Model-specific presets in the UI, as well as a way of setting AI Models specific to stories.

Other changes
The selection for the AI Model has been moved to the Defaults Setting section to accompany AI Models now being story-specific.
The Banned Tokens panel has been updated to work in the same way as the Phrase Bias panel.
Fixed the keyboard controls for some of the Advanced Options sliders.
The storage and export format for Phrase Bias, Banned Tokens, and EOS Tokens changed.
Added Euterpe-specific Config Presets: "Basic Coherence", "Full House", "Weaver", "Mothra", and "Morpho".
Please experiment with the different presets! As with any new model, finding a good set of settings and a good fit for everyone takes time and experimentation, so let us know what you think!