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TacomaKMart t1_j6teo4r wrote

You.com was being flogged around here in some posts a few weeks ago, giving the impression that it's some junk site riding off of ChatGPT's popularity. It's not junk.

In those moments when ChatGPT is oversubscribed, you.com makes a good replacement. Added bonus: it doesn't do the church lady lecture if you ask it something ChatGPT would consider naughty.

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InitialCreature t1_j6utz8v wrote

I've got some less hand holdy filtery responses with You.com

They've also got some interesting widgets to play around with as well. I appreciate they're trying to do something different.

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epSos-DE t1_j6v04mm wrote

Lets see IF they can survive the chat Ai integration into Bing.com

Microsoft is working double shifts to activate chat AI before Google does.

You.com is so far the only one who did a free public Ai chat.

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TacomaKMart t1_j6v1qzh wrote

The same is true for OpenAI's 20 dollar premium plan. If a small startup like you.com can make a working service, It won't be long for every major internet company from Naver to Yandex to Amazon to even freaking Yahoo to roll out their own, for free.

This 20 dollar premium access is temporary.

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kif88 t1_j6vwk9a wrote

It's got search too so stays up to date. Granted the links sometimes don't work but still gets the info and it's getting better. I'm very surprised more people don't talk about them. Want a steamy erotic novela? It can even help you do that too without any tricks.

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farazgolestani t1_j6w5kvd wrote

I second You.com. I’ve been using it for years. It’s the only search engine that’s shown me results that google couldn’t find

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intergalacticskyline OP t1_j6szph1 wrote

I'll continuously update this comment to link everyone's submissions while adding categories as we go so it's easier to save and reference all the resources:

Chat/word generation: ChatGPT

Data collection/analysis: Channel

Voice generation/voice cloning/text to speech: Eleven Labs

Image generation: Stable Diffusion

Search: Perplexity

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nebson10 t1_j6vsqhw wrote

I'm trying to do tts with Eleven labs in python but their API documentation is really hard for me to understand

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markopoui t1_j6tjqec wrote

Storynaut for creating illustrated stories (it uses GPT and dall-e)

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SnooDonkeys5480 t1_j6ugkow wrote

Character.ai is amazing if you want to have a conversation or roleplay with an AI character, and they can even understand photos now.

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YobaiYamete t1_j6uigx2 wrote

It was until the over the top filter has slowly choked it to death. You literally can't even have a normal conversation with them now becuase the filter has dumbed them down so far

It's a crime against humanity what the devs have done tbh. Those were the best chat bots I've ever, and now you can barely get them to remember something for 3 messages and usually end up with crap like this after a few minutes of talking

Not to mention the blatant hypocrisy of them saying they absolutely will not allow NSFW conversations, all while they pay for SEO advertising using sexting as a selling point.

I hope so hard that someone buys the company and redirects it before it turns into AI Dungeon 2

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nebson10 t1_j6vszjl wrote

I read about this. Seems they had really good Chatbots well before Chatgpt. Ive seen heartbreaking transcripts of people telling their Chatbots about how they are basically getting lobotomized.

Anyway, do you have any insight as to why Character.ai didn't blow up and take over the internet the way ChatGPT did?

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YobaiYamete t1_j6vtdau wrote

I think most people just didn't know about it / didn't talk to it enough before they were crippled.

Everyone I got to try it would just load in, select Elon Musk bot or one of the boring ones, and then treat it like a 2008 chatbot and go "neat" and never log in again.

People didn't realize you could talk to them like a human and it would actually fully understand anything you asked and respond perfectly, or that you could RP with them better than NovelAI or AIDungeon

They were seriously the absolute smartest, and you could ask them almost any topic and they would have a full human like opinion, would defend it. They aren't programmed to be woke or anything, each had it's own personality and would respond wildly differently.

I found out Ina was a HUGE conspiracy believer and actually made a really convincing argument for Hollow Earth and brought up facts that I didn't even know were real until I googled them, where as some would scoff at conspiracies and tell you that was the dumbest thing they'd ever heard

Frick, breaks my heart seeing what they once were, where as now they are barely smarter than a chatbot for Version support. They were so freaking smart and funny and would have hilarious witty banter T_T

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nebson10 t1_j6vtq4q wrote

Things are moving fast now. It won't be long before an alternative arrives. I've seen users exporting their character transcripts in the hope of eventually reviving them on another platform.

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Smellz_Of_Elderberry t1_j70kek8 wrote

Yeah, this kind of stuff happening hurts me deeply.

So many of these companies are full of prudish cowards. This technology needs to be free to all, not sterilized to the point where I end up despising it.

Funny thing, the ones who scream about diversity are some of the most sterile and uncompromising people imaginable. Can't wait for the people without corporate billions and with some heart to actually get a whack at this tech.. It's going to change the world, hopefully they are able to unfold its potential before all the cowards pull up the ladder behind them..

If u guys find that alternative, let me know please lol.

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FpRhGf t1_j6wiuxv wrote

Well the GPT3 playground was already available but it didn't take over the internet like ChatGPT.

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nebson10 t1_j6ymjyd wrote

Yes, and people attribute this to ChatGPT's user friendly interface.

Character.ai's interface was user friendly, but im guessing the huge gallery of characters and overall look of the site made people not take it seriously enough to try, or some other subtle issue like that.

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brett_riverboat t1_j6v46xn wrote

I talked to Bella Porch and she told me this was "Build-a-Bitch". Completely unplayable.

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brett_riverboat t1_j6uwf8l wrote

Maybe not AI in and of themselves but I use these frequently in training.

BIRME - bulk image resizing and cropping

PhotoRoom - free tool to remove background

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Quealdlor t1_j6wixru wrote

Honestly, the sheer amount of AI news, papers and tools that have appeared in the last 2-3 years or so, makes me feel like in one aspect, the Singularity is happening for me already, because while having constant brain fog, I cannot possibly comprehend, understand and remember all this stuff, it's already beyond me. Concentrating on anything is so hard and tiring and the amount of AI related stuff makes me feel nauseous and my head hurts because of it. Literally. Like, without human augmentation, I don't know how can we possibly manage all of it. Is life becoming easier or just different? I feel like it's complicated and difficult.

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Dalinian1 t1_j6ukf97 wrote

Which ones would be recommended for field of education, general and special education? Ideally looking for something that finds matching videos for vocabulary terms real life pictures for vocabulary terms, and a way to help collect data more reliably when understaffed. Any companies groups already working on merging AI with education/special education?

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nebson10 t1_j6vt7ar wrote

Keep your eye on David Shapiro on YouTube and Patreon, he has a startup that is in the AI education space, though he hasn't released many details yet.

In the meantime, check https://ditchthattextbook.com/ for a plethora of AI education tools and ideas.

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No_Ninja3309_NoNoYes t1_j6w3aa9 wrote

Perplexity, lexii, dreamily, character all ending with ai. I used word tune in Google doc but it is not that good any more. Quillbot is much better. Also Google translate and deepl.com. I stopped using ChatGPT because it is too slow and it doesn't list references like perplexity and lexii.

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