[dongobread]

I don't think the target market for this is people looking for extremely knowledgeable LLMs that can handle deep technical tasks, given that you can't even finetune these models.

I'd guess this is more of an attempt to poach the market of companies like character.ai. The market for models with a distinct character/personality is absolutely massive right now (see: app store rankings) and users are willing to spend insane amounts of money on it (in part because of the "digital girlfriend" appeal).

[crooked-v]

> digital girlfriend

The ban on "adult themes" is part of the reason people use services other than OpenAI for that kind of thing in the first place.

[sucralose]

OpenAI is against emotional attachment to their LLMs in general, even disregarding "adult themes".

[Der_Einzige]

Someone has to give reasons for civit.ai and huggingface to exist!

[23B1]

Can you elaborate a bit on why you think the market for distinct character/personality models is massive right now?

I ask only because I've been asked by a fairly well-known GAI company to help them 'personality-ize' some of their models and I'm trying to understand who else is doing it, where, and why – namely because I'd like to keep doing it.

[DonHopkins]

Notice how it's "digital girlfriend" but not "digital boyfriend" that insane users will spend insane amounts of money on. So sad. But maybe it will distract the incels from harassing real women.