Wow!
Someone has been running this on the horde the past few nights, and it's been blowing me away!
It stays more or less in character for any card i've thrown at it so far, (..with a few oddball exceptions, though those are the outliers - mostly monster women who shout gibberish anyway, or ones who act a bit too randomly) and its pretty darn good at keeping a scene going.
It seems to try its best to mimic your writing style, but it takes a few slight adjustments here and there to steer it where you want at first, sort of like a really big ship, where you've gotta crank the wheel this way and that at the start to get it pointed in the right direction, but its more or less smooth sailing once it gets going. The more you give it to work with at first, the better your experience will be, which makes sense. Very, very impressive as far as RP'ing goes.
I think I accidentally cracked into the dataset a few times on accident, because after a handful of messages with a couple characters, suddenly they'd sprout tails or fluffy ears lmaoo. I was like "Hey.. I saw that.."
It only happened very rarely, and its not a dealbreaker or criticism, but it was still fun to see. I love when big, fancy models like this one start to crack a little after rolling around in the mud with me a bit haha.
Also, this model seems to be very romantic minded! It handles the "steamier" stuff like a pro, but also loves the windup and downtime.
Looking forward to perhaps a 13b or 20b of this later (so I can run it on my own machine lmao), if that will ever be a thing :D
Thank you! I appreciate the time you took to post a review!
I'll look into a single medium sized model as a potential upcoming model. Currently working on a custom 11b model.
But I recommend my 4x8b model L3-Arcania-4x8b it's just above the 20b mark (at 25b) and it does really well at storytelling and RP as well!
Thanks again!
Good afternoon. I would like to thank you for releasing this model on horde, as in my personal opinion it has outshone other neural networks that other people have broadcast. I am very hooked on this model, unfortunately my PC does not support this model and I don't know how to run it or other neural networks on a personal PC. I am waiting every day for you to run it on horde (lol, if of course you are the one running it all these days :3). What I want to say about this model is that it perfectly, even too much, replicates the character, speech style of my characters on SillyTavern. The actions of my characters are very diverse and interesting, but at the same time did not lose sense and everything was LOGICAL. Speaking of flaws, I personally rarely noticed Astoria attributing horns and wings to a villain character, even though my character doesn't have them. One last thing - as soon as I tried Astoria 70B in roll chat, the other Horde neurosets became gray and boring for me, I lost my taste for them, and I'm the same person who can't be happy without chat interesting. Thank you for your attention, I hope and wait, maybe in vain or not, I in any case do not know for what purpose you launched it on horde, but my life will not become the same.
Alexandra.
100% agree with everyone Alexandria said. Tested a dozen models on conflicting world info and Astoria was the only one able to consistently keep up with and replicate the information and create coherent, consistently great story no matter what I threw at it. I'm spoiled for other models, now, and there's no way I can run this locally. :(
@Alexandria4114 @Reithan thank you very much for the posts I appreciate it very much!