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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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2. Be kind and friendly.

  • Please be kind to others on this community (and also in general), and remember that for many people Perchance is their first experience with coding. We have members for whom English is not their first language, so please be take that into account too :)

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it was so good but now the thinking is hidden (disabled?) and the ai is even more nagging about nsfw and i don't mean illegal stuff

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[–] theend@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

So the “Think” feature isn't just very helpful—because you can easily see what the AI is thinking at any given moment—but it's essential for the “Perchance” edit window! The AI only knows what's written in this chat, so if it doesn't write down what it's thinking, then a major part of what makes the Perchance AI Helper special is missing. What bothers me is that you aren’t even informed about a change, and then it’s implemented so poorly. Before, the AI said it came from OpenCode; now it doesn’t mention that anymore. But in a chat, the new AI Helper told me it’s Muse Spark (Meta). Only the people in charge can tell us if that’s true. I can confirm that it’s “dumber”—even with a simple task like “translate the website into another language,” the new model didn’t translate everything, and as I said, that’s just a simple instruction. Let’s just hope this gets fixed quickly because, let’s be honest, it’s absolutely awesome to get results—even with little knowledge of the subject—that would otherwise cost a lot of money elsewhere. With the old AI assistant, for example, I created an online editor that lets you make small magazines. Having that built elsewhere would have cost me around $5,000.

[–] esrxt@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is a new model for the AI Helper Agent feels like a huge downgrade. Not only is the thinking option gone, which was really useful for following what the AI was doing during a run, but the model itself feels much weaker than the old one. It seems far more focused on speed than on actual capability, reasoning, and delivering solid results. I’d much rather wait longer and get the old level of performance back than have faster responses with significantly weaker output.

[–] phoenix184@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

bro the censorship has increasingly worsened so you know this is totally intentional

[–] thevegit0@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

at least the text model is as uncensored you can get, maybe it's a failsafe since the agent can build shit?

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

Sure, it's technically uncensored in that it doesn't 'fade to black' but writing nsfw as evasive 'hammered, lunged, petals' no profanity, no slang, is not the same as the gritty visceral sensory detail that it was 3 months ago.

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

Oddly enough, some generators still show the inner thinking in the coding chat.

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

At least you can access it. Mine’s now giving me a weird window filling message box I can’t even back out of