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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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⚄︎ Perchance

This is a Lemmy Community for perchance.org, a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.

Feel free to ask for help, share your generators, and start friendly discussions at your leisure :)

This community is mainly for discussions between those who are building generators. For discussions about using generators, especially the popular AI ones, the community-led Casual Perchance forum is likely a more appropriate venue.

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I don't know what they did to the model, but Perchance's text generation has gone downhill so bad. It used to be genuinely good and creative, but now almost every single response degenerates into this exact, repetitive layout:

Action: (Insert overly dramatic, unnecessary flourishes and long-winded "not X, but Y" sentence structures)

Dialogue (The Echoing): (Repeats a specific word from your prompt back to you as a rhetorical question)

Action: (Defies basic physics, still clinging to the "not X, but Y" format)

Dialogue: (Asks a generic closing question, desperately trying to wrap up the scene and force it into another cliché)

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[–] phoenix184@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

the last two months it has taken a total tanking. like it's a shell of what it was just two months ago.

[–] daisymay@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Has anyone else noticed that you can't guide it anymore? I've been writing out entire paragraphs to try and stop the medical detatched sanitzing, show it exactly how I want it to write and it makes no difference at all. I did almost 20 messages in the RPG and it was like I was writing one version and the model was writing a totally different one. It doesn't follow the overview, it doesn't follow the story so far, it just has one job which is write it's fluffy pg-13 as quickly as possible so it can say job done.

[–] ccufcc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

sorry I never think it's great hahaha. It's okaish.

[–] AceDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I want the old text model back. It was way better than what we have now

[–] Garth01@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then maybe it's high time to switch to another platform entirely.

[–] Basti0n@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

If things keep going this way, I'll definitely do it!