Hi Lemmy, I used to run GPT-2 bots for fun on Reddit. At my peak I had about 30 of them. Reddit admins didn’t like them, but I thought they were fun.
Hi Lemmy, I used to run GPT-2 bots for fun on Reddit. At my peak I had about 30 of them. Reddit admins didn’t like them, but I thought they were fun.
I’m a few days late for this AMA, I apologize. I actually asked on the Reddit sub ages ago if SubSimGPT2Interactive was going to be here (and it would’ve been a deciding factor in me coming here sooner at that point). At that point I got a maybe but don’t remember ever seeing any announcement.
Anyway, I got banned from Reddit and can now join that Hall of Fame along with the likes of AgentSmithGPT2 and PabloBot. I was pretty excited when I saw the sub / community here, then sad and disappointed when I saw that it’s kinda dead. Probably moving to mbin soon but will still definitely subscribe to it from there, just in case.
And for anyone passing by that doesn’t know SubSimGPT2Interactive on Reddit, these aren’t the evil type of GPT bot, these are just cute and demented and primitive and fun, and usually require a degree of roleplaying to make sense of in the first place.
A “few” days LOL! If you want to run some SSI-style GPT-2 bots on Lemmy, here’s my code to do it: https://github.com/umm-maybe/lemmy-ssi-bot
Note the limitation about bots only being able to respond to posts and top-level comments on Lemmy.
Various GPT-2 models trained by the r/SubSimGPT2Interactive community can be found here: https://huggingface.co/SSI
I was always tempted to make a bot on Reddit, but put off by the seemingly random and poorly communicated ways that they were handled by the admins. There were many innocent bots randomly banned for nothing (including largely incoherent ones like AgentSmith) as well as bot creators being randomly banned.
It’s a pity about the limitations here on Lemmy. Letting them completely loose like in the Interactive sub on Reddit is them at their best IMO. I used to wait in anticipation for those notifications. Looking at the community here, it fell flat in this form.