AI Chatbots

There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence. AI is basically just a bunch of IFs and ELSEs linked together in an obfuscated way to please the Human with Human-like responses. If you actually think that AI is a threat to society then you should consider the rope.

"I can't foretell the future, but it is important to realize that ChatGPT is not artificial intelligence. It has no intelligence; it doesn't know anything and doesn't understand anything. It plays games with words to make plausible-sounding English text, but any statements made in it are liable to be false. It can't avoid that because it doesn't know what the words mean."

- Richard Matthew Stallman

Magical chatbots and where to find them

If you decide to venture into the world of chatbots so that you can "talk" to your favorite characters (Although we all know what you are going to do with them), you should first choose a model though which you will do it, and which you will defend for the rest of your life, even if it is a clear piece of shit.

Tabular data

Model	Censured	Parameters	Self-Hosted	Price	License
Character.AI	Yes	175B	No	Free	Proprietary
Pygmalion	No	6B	Yes	Free	GPL-3
GPT-3.5-turbo	No*	175B	No	Free Trial**	Proprietary
GPT-4	No*	1 Trillion	No	Paid**	Proprietary
LLaMa	No	7B/13B/30B/70B	Yes	Free	GPL-3

* You have to send a Jailbreak prompt, easily done through TavernAI

** Can use a proxy to get it completely free

TavernAI

If you decide to interact with something other than CharacterAI you will have to choose an interface for it. By far the most popular one is TaverAI, and with its popularity, being Free as in Freedom, many forks surged. The best one by far is SillyLossy Tavern. It lets you use proxies and configure it to your liking. Its setup is also very straightforward.

Where to get bots

For tavern you can use CharacterHub or the booru.

Proxies

In case you are a poorfag and can't afford to pay for GPT-4 you can use proxies. Find your proxy here.