Can you teach me/us this method of using AI you use? I am intrigued
Sure here is the rundown help by AI:
Alright, let's break down how you can dive into AI roleplay.
**What's an LLM?** It's a large language model, basically a super smart AI trained on tons of text to chat, answer questions, or roleplay like a character. Think of it as a brainy buddy who can pretend to be anyone or anything.
**Lots of Ways to Play, Different Vibes**
There are a bunch of ways to get into AI roleplay, from dead simple to "I need a beefy PC and some patience." Here's the rundown:
**Easiest Option: Chatbot Sites like Character.AI**
Start with something like Character.AI—it's a website where you pick or create a character (like a pirate, a wizard, or even a celebrity) and just start chatting. It's free, browser-based, and beginner-friendly. You type, the AI responds as the character, and boom, you're roleplaying. Difficulty? Zero. It's like texting a friend, but they're a fictional dragon.
**Level Up: Local Setup with Silly Tavern (More Custom, More Work)**
If you want *full* control, things get spicier. You'll need a high-end PC, ideally with a beefy GPU (think NVIDIA RTX 3090 or 4090 with 24GB VRAM). VRAM is king here—it's the memory that lets the AI handle big chats without choking.
- **APIs for Smart AIs**: You can use paid APIs from companies like Google, xAI, Deepseek, or Anthropic. These are the brainiest models with huge "context length" (how much chat history they remember). Most are pay-to-play, and free tiers limit messages. They're great for safe-for-work (SFW) roleplay, but NSFW stuff can get you banned if you go too wild. Difficulty: Medium, just need a credit card and some setup.
- **Local LLMs**: Run the AI on your own PC for max privacy and freedom. Models come in sizes like 3B, 8B, 13B, 30B, 70B, or even 123B (the "B" is for billions of parameters—bigger means smarter but hungrier for VRAM). A single 3090/4090 can handle smaller models (7B,13B, 24B), but for big ones (70B+), you're looking at a crypto-mining rig with 3-4 GPUs. Difficulty: Hard, needs a powerful rig and some tech know-how.
- **Running Local Models**: You'll need software like KoboldCPP (easiest), LM Studio, or Oobabooga to act as a "local API" and run the model. KoboldCPP is a one-file wonder—just download, pick a model from HuggingFace, and go. Difficulty: Medium, takes some tinkering.
- **Silly Tavern for the Win**: This is where roleplay gets awesome but tricky. Silly Tavern is a free, open-source interface for chatting with local or API-based LLMs. It's like Character.AI on steroids—you create "character cards" (with personality, backstory, etc.), craft lore, scenarios, or prologues, and go wild. SFW or NSFW, local setups are private, so it's all on your PC, no bans. It's got a steep learning curve, but you can download cards from sites like Chub.ai or make your own. Difficulty: Hard, but worth it for customization.
**Extra Flair**: Once you're in Silly Tavern, pimp out the experience. Use Stable Diffusion to generate character sprites or backgrounds (yup, AI art!). Add music, or hook up speech-to-text and text-to-speech for a more immersive vibe. It's like directing your own movie.
So that was the rundown personally I have a expensive rig with 1x 4090 3x 3090 GPU (cost a pretty penny) and use the biggest models, create my own characters cards, Lore, scenarios, group chats with multiple characters, create my own sprites, backgrounds and CG, use speech to text, music , I don't use text to speech it's still pretty bad and it doesn't compare to the paid ones.
My roleplays consist basically from many different games like saiminjutsu, saimin yuugi and embu and many others I also use characters from anime and add mind control to the mix, the sky is the limit really and can go wild and honestly I really enjoy it so much that I haven't touch a video game, manga, new eroge since LLM came out.
