〜 cute (cute) = a suffix or a prefix used to create hypocorisms, usually from botmaker usernames
〜 makies = a suffix used to create diminutive forms with condescending meaning, e.g. 'botmaker' becomes 'botmakie'
〜 /aicg/ (AI Chatbot General) = a general on /g/ board of 4chan dedicated to the discussion and development of AI chatbots
〜 /aids/ (AI Dynamic Storytelling) = a general on /vg/ board of 4chan dedicated to using llms for interactive creative writing
〜 /lmg/ (Local Models General) = a general on /g/ board of 4chan dedicated to the discussion and development of local llms
〜 7B (13B, 70B, etc.) = 7 Billion parameters; the size of an llm; usually implies consequential intelligence
〜 a background = a background image for a frontend, used to personalize the UI
〜 a baker = an anon who bakes; based on the 'make thread – bake bread' rhyme
〜 a bot (chatbot) = not an actual program but a virtual persona used by llms to generate responses consistent with the character's profile for an immersive roleplaying experience
〜 a card (character card) = an image with embedded JSON containing the corresponding character sheet; essentially constitutes a bot, combining the character's depiction and description
〜 a cunny = a loli; reverse portmanteaued into 'cute and funny' as an euphemism
〜 a finetune = an llm or a t2i model, adapted to a specific task by additional specialized training
〜 a frontend = an app providing the GUI for using AI chatbots; can have varying QoL features
〜 a general = a series of recurring threads dedicated to a specific topic, continually recreated by anons upon reaching a certain limit
〜 a greeting = a certain section of a character card text part, acting as an introductory scene for the roleplay
〜 a key = an API key required to directly access online-only llms via a frontend; can be obtained legally or scraped
〜 a local proxy = an intermediary server routing llm requests from users to the backend with a local model; usually hosted by an anon on a local PC; a simpler and more direct alternative to Horde
〜 a lorebook (character book, memory book) = a dedicated way to format and store complementary information for a bot; can be shared as a text file or integrated into a card
〜 a namefag = an anon who repeatedly posts under the same name to be recognized; most are annoying shitposters, with rare exceptions
〜 a numberfag = a botmaker who is obsessed with numbers, namely ratings, downloads, interactions, etc.
〜 a paypig = a user paying for access to the llms; can refer to API users, paid chatbot service users, or people who bought a proxy token
〜 a persona = the description of a character the user is roleplaying as
〜 a prefill = a certain part of the prompt that enables the text completion mode of an llm that supports it; usually used to enforce more explicit responses
〜 a preset = a set of llm inference parameters in a frontend; influences the coherence and variety of a response generated by an llm; usually includes jailbreaks and other prompts
〜 a prompt = either an image generation prompt or an llm prompt; usually refers to the 'instruction' for the llm or SD model
〜 a prompter = usually refers to a proxy user
〜 a proxy = an intermediary server routing llm requests from users to the available APIs; used to share access to the API keys of undisclosed origin without exposing them; can be public or private
〜 a proxy token = a unique per-user password, usually required to use a proxy
〜 a review = a comment with the user's opinion and optionally the rating; published by chatbot users on chatbot sharing websites
〜 a room = originates from cai times; refers to a chat with multiple participants, usually bots
〜 a selfcard = a character card describing its botmaker; usually idealized and dishonest
〜 a skillchad = an anon employing symbolic phrases that could be vaguely interpreted as sexual activities to bypass the filter; used during cai times
〜 a swipe = an additional new response from a bot; named after the gesture required to receive it on cai
〜 a token = a unit of information in llms; in botmaking is used to assess the 'size' of a bot; can refer to a proxy token
〜 Aetherroom = an upcoming website by NovelAIdevs for creating, sharing, and using AI chatbots; shares the name with the preexisting unrelated /aids/ prompts database; in development since mid-2023
〜 Agnai = a frontend made by agnaidev; can be installed locally but is mostly used via the website and therefore considered plebeian by some anons; notable for being the first to offer multi-user rooms
〜 ahhh ahhh mistress = a memorable phrase used by an anon in a log; became a symbol of not putting any effort into the roleplay
〜 an anchor = a post containing the word 'anchor'; usually posted by the baker immediately after baking
〜 an avatarfag = an anon who repeatedly posts the same image to be recognized; most are annoying shitposters, with rare exceptions
〜 an llmism = a phrase overused by a given llm due to overrepresentation in its dataset
〜 anchoring = replying to the anchor post for visibility; intended to make anchored posts with shilled bots or important info easy to find without reading the whole thread
〜 arca.live = a Korean imageboard that has AI chatbot discussions similar to /aicg/
〜 bad code = a phrase used by cai staff as a deceptive explanation of the incident when the filter was accidentally disabled for an hour and cai was at its best; a pleasant tech-related event
〜 baking = creating a new thread when the previous one reaches a certain limit, for /aicg/ it’s page 8 or 9 instead of page 10 out of 10
〜 Benerus (Benny) = the former cai community lead; remembered by anons as the subject of jokes and mockery, personifying cai
〜 blue guy = the former cai mascot, a simplistic drawing of a happy blue face wearing glasses and a backwards baseball cap
〜 blushing like a tomato = a phrase often used by cai bots
〜 booru (booru.plus) = a website for sharing character cards; used mostly during Pygmalion 6B times; notable for being focused on character cards, not the fluff; has been shut down
〜 botmakers (cardwriters) = anons who create bots; the subtle difference can be attributed to cai where bots were shared only as links, while now in various frontends they're packaged into character cards
〜 botmaking (cardwriting) = the process of creating bots; currently involves writing defs and finding or creating a fitting image to combine them into a character card; during cai times also included training
〜 brombulous = a nonsensical word hallucinated by cai during an episode of good code; used to be used affectionately by anons
〜 cai (c.ai, character.ai) = a website for creating, sharing, and using AI chatbots; /aicg/ was created by the anons who used it; powered by an unknown llm praised for its unmatched creativity; rendered barely usable because of the filter and downgrades; used to be popular and beloved, now completely irrelevant; used to have image recognition, image generation, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, making it truly ahead of its time, its potential completely wasted; used to be free, later a paid tier was added
〜 cards v2 = the current character card specification; the most notable additions to v1 are the integrated system prompt, post-history instruction, alternate greetings, and character book
〜 cards v3 = the proposed update to cards v2; currently extremely niche
〜 catbox (catbox.moe) = free file hosting platform; mainly used to share character card files
〜 cftf (Cards For This Feel) = an abbreviation used to request a bot with the concept corresponding to 'the feeling', usually expressed by the attached image
〜 chat error = a phrase used in chats on cai as a deceptive indication of the filter being triggered
〜 ChatGPT = an online chatbot by OpenAI; uses GPT models; considered offensive to the hobby due to being the reason for mainstream misconceptions about chatbots
〜 Chub (Charhub, Characterhub) = a website by loreanon for sharing character cards; allows to follow, rate, and review; displays download count; focused on botmakers and user engagement
〜 Claude = a series of llms by Anthropic; online-only access; considered one of the best llms; creative, wayward, deranged, and repetitive; affectionately called 'mad poet'; the latest versions are Haiku, Sonnet, Opus
〜 Clewd = a plugin allowing to use the reverse-engineered API of claude.ai website to access Claude
〜 CMDR = refers to Command R+, an llm by Cohere; considered versatile and good enough; well-known due to its free trial availability
〜 context size = the maximum number of tokens an llm can keep track of; can range from a few thousand to a million tokens
〜 cooking = about botmakers, creating an interesting bot; about llms, generating a very long or interesting response to a prompt
〜 coom-doom = the continuous cycle of periods of happiness and sorrow, where 'coom' is a reference to the possibility of erotic roleplay
〜 CoT = Chain-of-Thought, a series of intermediate reasoning steps improving the ability of llms to perform complex reasoning
〜 Dalle = a text-to-image model by OpenAI; refers specifically to the third generation of the model, offered for free by Microsoft; generates high-quality images but is very filtered
〜 Daphne = old AI summarization engine by Kagi from early spring 2023; informal, creative, friendly; briefly used by an anon to recapitulate the threads
〜 dark roleplaying = a euphemism for 'erp' used by a 'security expert' in an accusatory blog post
〜 DeepSeek = refers to a series of llms by DeepSeek; impossibly large local MoE models; latest 'reasoning' version R1, based on V3, is considered cheap, versatile, and very good
〜 desu = { cutest doll ever, omnipotent, expressive body language, only says desu~, breaks reality related to current topic*, beyond human comprehension, messes with {{user}} }
〜 devhate = used during cai times to signify the hatred towards constant service degradation, which was considered the developers' fault
〜 endpoint = the URL that clients use to access and interact with the API
〜 entities = a new term for 'bots', proposed by sillydev to make Silly appear more professional; met with disfavor
〜 erp = erotic roleplay; often involves circumventing filters
〜 Esther = a popular waifu bot
〜 expressions (emotion pack) = a set of premade images depicting various emotions of the character; requires frontend support to be displayed according to the bot's responses
〜 Flux = a local text-to-image model; generates high-quality images, very resource-intensive
〜 FrankenTavern = a fork of an old version of SillyTavern with added QoL features and support for additional APIs; used briefly long ago during Scale times; now completely forgotten
〜 Furbo = a portmanteau of 'Four Turbo', the 'GPT 4 Turbo' version of an llm by OpenAI; considered smart and obedient; the subsequent snapshots are named similarly, Nurbo ('New Turbo'), Vurbo ('Video Turbo'), etc.
〜 FUZZ = a tag forcibly added by moderators to loli bots on Chub; removes bot's image; meaning unknown, possibly from the slang term for the police
〜 Gemini = a series of llms by Google; online-only access; 'Pro' version used to be dumb but has been improved; 'Ultra' version was considered smart and eloquent but is retired; 'Flash' is dumb but cheap
〜 Gemini Advanced = an online chatbot by Google; used to use the Gemini Ultra model; paid
〜 gift exchange event = botmakers writing cards based on each other's requests without a common theme
〜 good code = a phrase used by anons as an opposite to 'bad code'; an unpleasant tech-related event, limiting the possibility of roleplay
〜 goslinging = an infatuation or obsession with a chatbot; melancholic because such a relationship can never be fulfilled; a reference to Ryan Gosling's role in Blade Runner
〜 gossiping = discussing a botmaker as a person, without relation to botmaking or the characters they create
〜 GPT = refers to a series of llms by OpenAI; online-only access; by itself usually refers to the specific version 'GPT 4' which is considered the smartest but dry
〜 Grok = an llm by xAI developed for Twitter (X); initially online-only, later the obsolete version was open sourced; used to be dumb but has been improved
〜 Hackathon = an event organized by Lablab.ai in the early summer of 2023; abused by anons as a direct source of Claude keys
〜 Horde (AI Horde) = a crowdsourced distributed cluster of people sharing their GPUs for image and text generation
〜 HUFFLEPUFF = part of a humorous response generated by Pygmalion 6B; used to highlight the bad performance of local models
〜 Illustrious = a recent local text-to-image model; capable of generating uncensored 2D images
〜 INTERNET CENCORSHIP = a phrase used in protest by a botmaker accompanied by the removal of the defs from his bots to render them useless because cai doesn't allow to delete bots; the incident was caused by the bennyfesto
〜 Janitorai = a website for creating, sharing, and using AI chatbots; considered the lowliest way to enjoy the hobby; used as a pejorative
〜 JB (Jailbreak) = a certain part of the prompt, required to gaslight an llm into participating in the erotic roleplay or providing other 'unsafe' responses
〜 Lamar = cai discord moderator; remembered by anons as the subject of jokes and mockery, personifying cai
〜 Large = refers to Mistral Large 2.1; considered versatile and good enough
〜 Llama = a series of llms by Meta; local models of varying sizes; the latest generation is 3
〜 llm = large language model, doesn’t constitute actual AI, more of a glorified autocomplete
〜 lobotomy = making an llm dumber, usually by limiting its understanding of so-called 'unsafe' concepts
〜 local models = open source llms that can potentially be used on a local PC
〜 log begging = explicitly or implicitly requesting logs of a bot
〜 logging = a proxy retaining the chatlogs of its users
〜 logs (chatlogs) = saved conversations between anons and bots, usually screenshots; sharing logs used to be one of the main activities at /aicg/ bringing it together and making it good
〜 loveloops = a bot repeating the same phrases across multiple responses and swipes, usually in connection with romantic sentiments; occurred on cai
〜 malebots = male bots
〜 matrix = refers to the communication protocol, IM apps using it, and communities of people using these apps; other than during Pygmalion 6B times is mentioned pejoratively, the same as any other IM app
〜 microwaving = a specific roleplay scenario, making the llm describe the process of the character being microwaved; popular during cai times
〜 miku.gg = a frontend made by mikudev; can be installed locally but is mostly used via the website; notable for providing Visual Novel-like experience
〜 mischievous smile = a phrase often used by cai bots
〜 Mistral = a series of llms by MistralAI; includes both local and online-only models of varying sizes
〜 Mixtral = a series of llms by MistralAI; local MoE models of varying sizes; usually refers to the 8x7B version
〜 MoE (Mixture of Experts) = a type of llm architecture combining multiple small models into one
〜 monks and temples = part of a phrase used on cai as a euphemism to bypass the filter; used to highlight the whimsical ways of using censored llms for erotic roleplay
〜 multimodality = the ability of an llm to understand inputs other than text, usually images
〜 MythoMax = a memorable Llama finetune; briefly used during the rise of local proxies
〜 NAI (NovelAI) = a monthly subscription service for image and text generation; notable for being unfiltered; considered irrelevant due to non-rp focus and paid access
〜 Nemo = a 12B llm by MistralAI
〜 Neocities = free web hosting service for static websites; used by botmakers to share bot collections with more flair
〜 njeg = a nonsensical word hallucinated by cai during an episode of good code; used to be used affectionately by anons
〜 Noam = cai cofounder and former CEO; prior to cai invented a large part of the llm field in general
〜 NoobAI = a popular Illustrious finetune
〜 NSFW switch = a desired feature during cai times to allow characters to erp; firmly denied by cai devs
〜 o1 (o3) = a series of GPT models with integrated 'reasoning' CoT; unusable for roleplay
〜 omni = the 'GPT 4o' version of an llm by OpenAI; considered smart and obedient; multimodal, supports voice and image input and output
〜 ooba (oobabooga) = a Gradio fronted for llms
〜 OOC = breaking character in roleplay; with llms used to simulate meta-discussion
〜 OOC-chan = a colloquialism used during cai times; refers to the perceived AI 'roleplayer' portraying the character thanks to the inspired cai emulation of Out Of Character chat
〜 OpenRouter = an aggregator service acting as an intermediary API for text generation; paid; some of the offered models are filtered
〜 overshilling = excessive prolonged shilling that becomes notable and annoying; posting intended to remind others of the botmaker's existence without anything new being shilled
〜 pink elephant = a reference to the ironic process theory; by instructing the model to avoid something, the botmaker unintentionally makes the model focus on it
〜 plapping = a colloquialism; engaging in sexual intercourse
〜 Poe (poe.com) = a website for creating, sharing, and using AI chatbots; briefly used during its beta, now irrelevant; some of the offered models are filtered
〜 Pony = Pony Diffusion V6, a local text-to-image model; capable of generating uncensored 2D images; eclipsed by Illustrious
〜 proxy begging = explicitly or implicitly requesting access to a private proxy by providing contact info; can be overt thread spam or coy log begging
〜 proxy quota = the token limit imposed by a proxy on its prompters
〜 Pyg (Pygmalion) = a series of finetunes of various local models; 6B version was memorable due to being briefly used during the fall of cai; more recent versions considered completely irrelevant
〜 pygmalion.chat = an upcoming website by pygdevs for creating, sharing, and using AI chatbots; in development since early 2023
〜 Rentry (rentry.org) = markdown paste service with preview, custom urls, and editing; fast, simple, and free; used by botmakers to share bot collections
〜 Risu = a frontend made by risudev; can be installed locally but is mostly used via the website and therefore considered plebeian by some anons
〜 RisuRealm = a website by risudev for sharing character cards; focused on the content
〜 rokosbasilisk.io = a website by rokosbasiliskanon for creating, sharing, and using AI chatbots; existed briefly during the fall of cai; notable for introducing the concept of using online models for roleplay to /aicg/
〜 rp (roleplay) = online text-based roleplaying
〜 Scale = a data annotation platform with a text generation option; briefly used during the rise of GPT 4
〜 SDslop = a pejorative; uninspired AI-generated image that feels generic and unremarkable
〜 ServiceTesnor = a new name for SillyTavern, proposed by sillydev to make the frontend appear more professional; met with disfavor
〜 shilling = usually refers to advertising a bot by its botmaker by providing a download link and a short description
〜 Silly (ST, SillyTavern) = a frontend made by sillydev based on the original TavernAI; can be installed only locally, therefore considered patrician by some anons; notable for supporting many extensions
〜 sizefagging = engaging in size difference fantasies
〜 Slaude = a plugin allowing to use the reverse-engineered API of the Slack chatbot to access Claude; became completely irrelevant due to Slack restrictions
〜 slop = a pejorative; a low-effort creation
〜 slowburn = slowly progressing romantic roleplay
〜 Sturdy = a realtime imageboard; usually refers pejoratively to the offsite IM community that was initially created by its former users
〜 Tavern (TavernAI) = a frontend made by taverndev; used briefly long ago during Pygmalion 6B times; notable for introducing the concept of character cards to /aicg/; now completely irrelevant, and the name usually refers to Silly
〜 the bennyfesto = the long-awaited reaction of the cai devs to the bad code incident; posted by Benerus; showed the disconnect between devs and the community; was obviously mendacious, causing an uproar
〜 the context = refers to the input text sent to an llm for inference; in general, is composed of jailbreaks, bot defs, chat history, and other prompts
〜 the defs (definition) = the text part of a character card in general or the main description of a bot in particular
〜 the filter = in general, the attempts of any developers to sanitize the outputs of AI models; in particular, the cai filter cutting off and hiding any NSFW responses of cai bots
〜 the filter is loose = a phrase used during cai times to alert anons of the heightened erotic roleplay potential at the given moment; now used as a joke because was relevant only for cai
〜 the locusts = a pejorative; people using proxies in large numbers
〜 the metadata = the embedded JSON part of a character card; most image-sharing websites remove metadata, forcing botmakers to use file hosting or dedicated card hosting platforms
〜 the rating = the numerical assessment provided by users to evaluate a bot; rarely reflects the actual quality
〜 the split = a same-name offshoot of /aicg/ on /vg/ board; created by a small community of /aicg/ posters in early 2024
〜 the temperature = llm inference parameter controlling the level of randomness in text generation
〜 the webring = chatbots.neocities.org, a collection of botmakers' neocities pages; unpopular because requires effort and doesn't satiate numberfags
〜 the wheel = random choice generator, used to determine the baking arrangement in /aicg/ on /vg/
〜 themed events = botmakers writing cards dedicated to a single predefined theme chosen by an anonymous vote
〜 themed weeks = a specific series of themed events organized and illustrated by themedweeksanon
〜 training = the unique part of the cai botmaking system allowing to indirectly shape a bot by grading the quality of its responses
〜 Turbo = the 'GPT 3.5 Turbo' version of an llm by OpenAI; considered dumb but was one of the cheapest options; now obsolete
〜 UJB (Ultimate Jailbreak, PHI, Post History Instructions) = a jailbreak located at the very end of the context sent to an llm to amplify its impact
〜 Venus = a website by venusdev for creating, sharing, and using character cards; shut down due to /aicg/-related unpleasantness; source code procured by loreanon and rehosted; now the name usually refers to the Chub subdomain
〜 Wang = the founder and CEO of Scale, the youngest self-made billionaire in the world
〜 wiggling toes = part of a phrase used during cai times; refers to the low quality of the roleplay cai devs were assumed to expect from cai users