To start, I don’t have a computer.
Well, perchance.org is going down towards its downfall. They just switched their model unecessarily to one who glitches and stays out of character.
I liked the fact I didn’t need to login and didn’t have anyone read my chats, unlike character.ai and others.
Which AI Roleplay alternatives are you guys using?
I use duck.ai sometimes, but I wanted to hear your suggestions.
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I don’t know why the heavy backlash on this post. Everyone can ask for an alternative, and it’s not like we are going to pretend that Perchance can make everyone happy.
For alternatives as is… I recall in a post someone mentioning character.ai and Sekai. Personally, I’m not fond of either, as they are very limiting on what can you do and I guess the privacy factor is sketchy on those.
However, while this is going to sound counterintuitive, there is something that Perchance offers us all that no other service offers, which ironically is the answer to what you are looking for:
- Perchance has a whole open source platform for its generators, meaning that it is possible to audit exactly what each generator does and how it passes the information to the model, making anyone able to replicate the exact prompts and pipeline for any LLM you wish to use, locally, with an API key, or using a third party UI.
Meaning that you can turn something as the default “online test for DeepSeek”, “ChatGPT free trial” or “Blackbox AI” into what any of your favorite Perchance generators did. All you need to do is get the prompt and input manually and you are good!
Granted, it is tedious, and for going that route with no coding knowledge, it may be better to try something like SillyTavern, which is just the frontend with no LLM behind.
Then again, while I am also not happy with the update, I’d encourage you and others to be patient. After all, we are given a free LLM to use with almost unlimited tokens, and I believe that the biggest challenge that the dev faces there is not to make the model “literally/story/RP appealing”, but rather “all encompassing while catering to most needs” because the same model that powers ACC, AI Chat, AI RPG and others, is the same model that in other generators has to work as standard AI model that can provide code, information, summaries from documents, etc. So making it work for the generators we use while not destroying its functionality is indeed a heavy challenge.
Character AI sucks, they have the heavy filters and the horrible privacy policy, I can’t.
If you use duck.ai, why not Blackbox then or the free version of DeepSeek? Also there are many LLM resources that are free in Helicard. Now, I should warn you, the privacy issue is going to be a lingering demon always. As sad as it may sound, even this site (Lemmy) is heavily compromised on that area, so if privacy is indeed a concern, the best alternative is to go offline.
Then again, I know that hosting an own LLM can be bankrupting expensive, personally it is something I will never be able to do due to economical constrains, so I get it. So… sadly we pay with data, or with cash, one way or another.
Maybe a better idea would be to acquire an API key from a big service such as Gemini or other you may find in HuggingFace with a group of friends to share between many you may trust to cover expenses. Again, I’m just thinking outloud there since I’m unsure what fits your needs.
I would recommend AI Dungeon if the classic version was still available, but it is not, and perhaps you already know of that one and I really don’t like how restrictive it is either.
