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Would you RP with an A.I?

I'm not sure what I've mentioned here before, but for something like dungeons or randomly generated content, I could use an AI.

I don't know about writing WITH one.

A big part of my high comes from pleasing my partner, and being able to have that fun gushing about moments and possibilities.

So yeah, maybe some sort of sim for large scale battles, enemy encounters, or even world building maybe... but as a primary partner, I need me a human.
 
Seranda said:
A big part of my high comes from pleasing my partner, and being able to have that fun gushing about moments and possibilities.
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This for me too. The excitement when everything clicks and that rush from your hard work being appreciated
 
I... actually have been. I just felt ashamed of admitting it because of the massive stigma around using generative AI. I believe that as long as I just use it for entertainment, it shouldn't be bad, but I'm worried that other people would think badly of me all the same (particularly people in the writing/art communities, and people on Youtube).

That being said though, I agree that AI does get repetitive. I have tried messing with it, but with mostly disappointing results.
 
I’ve used a few different ai roleplay apps. I tend to play a little, get tired of how similar all the characters/situations are then quit for another 6-8 months or so.

I actually got back on one just the other week. Saw the link in my bookmarks and thought what the hell.

Ai ERP apps are definitely getting better really, really fast. I wouldn’t be surprised if they mined ERP sites like BMR to be honest
 
I have a very active imagination, so if I need something one-sided, I can just pop into my own head or write something up to play things out. As others have said, the pleasure comes from writing with/against someone. Adding something in, having a character react a certain way, and seeing them respond, knowing that they saw what you were trying to do and got it. People are chaos, AI is programming.
 
Amberyn said:
I have a very active imagination, so if I need something one-sided, I can just pop into my own head or write something up to play things out. As others have said, the pleasure comes from writing with/against someone. Adding something in, having a character react a certain way, and seeing them respond, knowing that they saw what you were trying to do and got it. People are chaos, AI is programming.
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Totally, it’s fun to just sit and come up with things in my head and see where it all goes. Sometimes I follow one train, sometimes I will change it up and do it a bit differently just to see. The chaotic back and forth, and the whole idea of “Well they did this. How would my character respond. What would they say? what would they do? And when you hit that moment where the characters are in sync, it’s pretty great.
 
4 years later and AI sure has grown up into a horrible monstrosity that must be put down

I have only scarcely, barely touched AI - mostly to see 'how' it works for myself. I probably fucked around with an AI for 10 minutes and if my dislike for AI wasn't cemented beforehand that would have sealed the deal.
 
theWatcher said:
I wouldn’t be surprised if they mined ERP sites like BMR to be honest
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The best I can say is unregistered members can't read the semi private RP forums and AI certainly can't read PMs unless you're RPing with a bot on BMR. FWIW, the solutions to AI on BMR are complicated.
 
I tried it; the AI kept yes-anding my worst impulses, and the RP got so dark without another human to say their limits. It put Euron Greyjoy's blood ritual of profanity to shame. Within an hour, we encountered issues like mutilation and non-consent... then it continued to try to lower character ages (it kept trying to do weird flashbacks), and that's when I dropped it. It is a monster, and it will make monsters of us.
 
Out of curiosity? Maybe. What east is describing seems to be a common flaw of current generative AI models. Would they get better over time? I suppose that would depend on their training corpora and the higher-level instructions given to organize the output. But I would prefer not to, and I certainly wouldn't want to RP with a human who used generative AI to generate responses wholesale.
 
Bardic Returns said:
Out of curiosity? Maybe. What east is describing seems to be a common flaw of current generative AI models. Would they get better over time? I suppose that would depend on their training corpora and the higher-level instructions given to organize the output. But I would prefer not to, and I certainly wouldn't want to RP with a human who used generative AI to generate responses wholesale.
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Wow... now THAT would be truly unhinged.
 
east said:
I tried it; the AI kept yes-anding my worst impulses, and the RP got so dark without another human to say their limits. It put Euron Greyjoy's blood ritual of profanity to shame. Within an hour, we encountered issues like mutilation and non-consent... then it continued to try to lower character ages (it kept trying to do weird flashbacks), and that's when I dropped it. It is a monster, and it will make monsters of us.
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If all it had to do to make a monster out of you was "yes-and?" I've got bad news for you.
 
I've tried it. And it's fun for a while, but I find it limiting. It's not quite as spontaneous as RPing with a human. The storytelling can be alright, and sometimes with the right prompts it can be really interesting. But I feel like it becomes predictable really quick, and I'm the one having to do all the leg-work. I'll say it's pretty mid, but I suspect it'll get better with time
 
It might have its uses, though none of them in any creative endeavor that I can see is good. Ignoring the outright theft of intellectual property aspect, it’s frustrating to see a person create or refine something with AI and call themselves a writer, artist, painter whatever in five minutes just as those who have spent years of their lives perfecting skills.
 
Im not really a fan but I have tried it. It is ok. But you really have to tell it everything you need. It is missing that personal spark and creativity another person brings to the table.
 
I wouldn't say I *RP* with AI but I used to use the site AIDungeon to write smutty stories on. I'd write a but, see what it did with moving the story forward... But honestly, I went back and edited its responses as much as I kept them.

I later used NovelAI for the same purpose, and had the same issue. I didn't really consider it RPing, though... More just having a machine give me inspiration prompts.

I will also say that it's wild seeing posts in here specifically about Replika, because I remember when Replika was advertised as a chat bot that could learn how its users typed in order to, well, replicate that for friends and family in case they died. I guess that they went in a different, more marketable direction with that somewhere along the way!
 
I wouldn’t judge someone for it, but I think it’s a bad idea to interact with AI in any way that could involve the emotions.

I fear how easily some have already become reliant on AI companions. Not because there is any moral issue — but because of the deep asymmetry at play. The AI is owned and controlled by a corporation which wants to profit off of you in some way. It becoming an entity that can in any way effect you interpersonally can only lead to exploitation long-term.
 
as long as it could ACTUALLY recall history and keep remembering its history i would use it. The AI chatbots ive used are a hit and a miss some times. Some have an okay memory like fish and sometimes they cant remember the last post and just repeat themselves.
 
yesod said:
The AI is owned and controlled by a corporation which wants to profit off of you in some way.
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There are open-source LLMs that one can run locally or, for lack of powerful hardware, rent time on a GPU farm.
You can even train it yourself from scratch (if you don't trust the published weights), though it will cost you in time and money.

Cerberus said:
as long as it could ACTUALLY recall history and keep remembering its history i would use it. The AI chatbots ive used are a hit and a miss some times. Some have an okay memory like fish and sometimes they cant remember the last post and just repeat themselves.
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Those are usually small models with very limited context length, especially the free ones.
 
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Cerberus said:
yeah well im not about to pay for rps.
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You don't have to, there are many free options (though quality varies).

My comment addressed your assertion that "The AI is owned and controlled by a corporation which wants to profit off of you in some way", by pointing out that nowadays you can create your own LLM from scratch, complete with your own preferred baked-in biases, but training an LLM is computationally intensive and powerful hardware is not free.

This has little to do with RP and more with the nature of the technology, levels of trust, and capitalism.

That said, to avoid drifting too much off topic, I would be happy to continue this conversation elsewhere (if you want to).
 
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