I'll agree that the best netori content I've had lately have been from similar services.
Although
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censors things unless you use a heavy dose of innuendos, they seem to be the best option for quality, in character responses.
there's also
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which allows for sex but with limits on how many generated replies you can make per day and not as good ai.
Then there's things like
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which so far seems to be the best option but which requires a bit more tinkering to get working and set up. Lots of solid free options (although the paid ones are generally better) and it's very easy to make custom characters and scenarios or download ones via sites like
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(I advise heavy use of filters when using sites like that though)
I checked out Kindroid because of
SecretSal and then some of your recommendations too. Thanks to both of you for starting me down this path! I have some thoughts and suggestions for people interested in trying this:
I echo the opinion that Kindroid is the best off-the-shelf solution. I played around with it for about a week and it does a pretty good job of NSFW scenarios in general and Netori storylines in particular. It stays on track most of the time, remembers details if you use the journal feature, and comes up with believable responses. It has both a mobile app and a browser version for PC, and the transition between them is seamless. I got a paid 1-month subscription and don't regret it.
All the other services I tried are utter garbage. Really,
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,
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,
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- all are just straight-up bad. The responses are all over the place and the pacing is horrendous.
I then started looking into
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and have been using it ever since. It's a bit more complicated to explain and needs a lot of reading to understand. You have to be willing to go through the documentation for a few hours, otherwise you'll just fail and be frustrated. SillyTaven itself is just a front-end UI that runs locally on your PC and connects to an AI model of your choice (which may or may not be free). What it does is handle the character cards, lore books, backstories, etc. for you and suitably prompt the AI chatbot to facilitate the kind of roleplaying most of us are interested in. It's really good at what it does, and probably the single best way to do this kind of thing.
You can use both local LLMs and cloud services with SillyTavern, including ChatGPT, Claude and such. The subscription price for those is separate. I ended up going for
NovelAI
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(with the highest tier subscription) and have to say it fits my style perfectly. NovelAI is less chatbot and more co-writer: it doesn't follow commands but instead, it picks up on what you write and tries to continue the text in a logical way. In other words, if you feed it a few paragraphs of a book, it will continue the story and write you a few more. This definitely isn't for everyone - you need good English and at least a bit of writing talent - but for me personally it's awesome. I'm essentially co-writing Netori stories with it, where I focus mostly on the male character and the AI focuses on the female one.
TL;DR: Kindroid if you just want to try something quick and easy. SillyTavern and your model of choice if you want to go all-in. Forget about the rest.