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Friday Fun Thread for July 19, 2024

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character.ai has a pretty notable userbase if its subreddit subscriber count is any indication. I think Zvi might have had a more objective stat in a recent newsletter. I expect AI RP, much like regular RP, is just something you're not going to hear about if you're not already in certain circles. As someone very much outside of the circle my only exposure to the subculture is the occasional peek into the chatbot threads on /g/.

I expect AI RP, much like regular RP, is just something you're not going to hear about

Incidentally, the seeming consensus among former roleplayers I saw in threads and talked to personally is that (E)RPers are the first decisive casualty of robots. The absence of interpersonal friction that internet RP entails is by itself enough to make LLMs strictly superior RP partners, even with all of their soy biases and retardation cognitive shortcomings (they can even mimic OOC chats, hilariously). I haven't really dabbled in RP before AI so I have no real way to check, but Reliable Sources seem to back up the general sentiment.