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Well, now Perchance's AI has become completely fixated on specific names when generating characters (in AI Character Chat), when you use the "Unknown" character, the one that has you generate a character based on a text prompt.

The names include:

  • Silas
  • Kaelen
  • Jax
  • Elara
  • Allistair
  • Thorne
  • Vane
  • Hank
  • Elias

This isn't even criticism either, this is just me taking notes. It seems Perchance's AI model has a particular fixation on these names. You can only force the AI to generate a character with a different name if you specifically specify the name of the character you want the AI to generate. Otherwise, it'll just use a pool that consists of those names. It's not coincidence, it's hard burned into its memory.

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[–] Crimson_Frost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Silas and Marcus appears mainly on smut. This is especially problematic for me because these names remember me of two famous religious leaders of my country with whom I obviously don't wanna imagine smut with; also, I have no fetish for religious things.

Elias Thorne, Kaelen Voss, Elara Vane, Julian Penhaligon, Sora Vance, Maya Vale, Arthur... These all appear a lot. Alistair and Alaric appears more when the setting is a little medieval, and Valerius is a very common villain. Aether, Aletheia, Aegis and Unit-7 are common for non humans, and "The Architect/Curator/Moderator/Oracle" are for mysterious characters. Lysander looks like the only Greek name the AI knows. And in my native language, I see things like Beatriz Cavalcanti and Thiago Viana.

Places are always Oakhaven, Aethelgard, Ouroboros or Orizon. In rare times, I noticed Omonoia.

AI also seems to have a weird obsession with some professions, like archivist, data analyst, fixer, watchmaker, scavenger and so on.

As for the clichés it brings way too often... I think this one text is already long enough.