I’ve gotten enough replies on my AI bot survey to post the results and write a bit about them.
Now the only one of the questions I had that came off as a bit contentious was asking about possibly doing payed requests. While there was a slight majority of those who were fine with me doing them (58.3%), there’s also a strong number of people who don’t want me to do them (41.7%). So I feel I should probably find some middle ground to make both sides happy. I will say I have no interest in making doing payed requests my main source of income. It would just be a side gig. Perhaps I could get a Ko-fi account or something similar and then be willing to do requests for people subscribed to that, but I’m just spitballing ideas and would need to think about it further.
Everything else was a strong majority yes. NonOC characters? 91.7% yes and 8.3% no. So that’s a pretty easy answer to what I can make in the future.
Forks of other people’s bots? 83.3% yes and 16.7% no. I get why some people might have an aversion to me doing forks, but I do promise that if I do forks I will put in the best effort to transform the bot into my own thing and not just lazily fork the bot with everything the same outside of two text changes. I’d recommend checking out the user TrashE if you want to see really good examples of forks of other users bots.
Finally non-characters (as in bots that aren’t characters, but are settings and sandbox bots, because I did get a comment from someone on the survey not knowing what I meant by non-character bots) got 75% yes and 25% no. I’ve only made two non-character bots and I felt rather unsatisfied by them, but it is something I want to try doing again because I do have some ideas that I think could make for interesting bots. Non-character bots are most likely going to be the least common of bots that I make from these categories, but it’s still something I want to do.
I didn’t get very many comments on the survey. The only other comment worth pointing out is someone telling me that I should do my bots in plaintext. I get what this person means, but personally when it comes to character bots, I like my method of combining tag words for certain body/personality descriptions and then use a plaintext-esque paragraph or two for general descriptions of them. I have used plaintext for my few non-character bots, and that’s how I’ll most likely keep doing non-character bots. I personally prefer my current way of formatting out character bots and it’s unlikely I’m going to move to plain text for them.
That’s it for now. I’ll post a bit more about future bot ideas once I’m finished with my current bot (I’m making a yandere bot!), so look forward to that in the future.
