About

Janitor AI, also spelled JanitorAI, is a site that contains a library of chatbots using OpenAI's API and other publicly available AI tech to role-play a series of characters and scenarios, similar to Character AI. Subscribers can log on and talk to an artificial intelligence impersonating a specific character and interact with that AI in both SFW and NSFW ways. Users can also create their own chatbots. The main application of JanitorAI appears to be NSFW fantasy scenarios, many of which are anime archetypes or monster girls and boys.

History

After OpenAI released its API for ChatGPT, a number of different apps were created on top of the large language model technology, modifying and tweaking the original base built for ChatGPT4. Some, like JanitorAI, centered around users creating interactive chatbots that could carry on specific kinds of conversation with other humans. The site allows users both to converse with chatbots, make their own chatbots, and share the results of their conversations with other chatbots.

The first version of JanitorAI was released on June 6th, 2023, and since then has gone through several versions. In late June, the site claimed to have surpassed a million users and over three thousand financial backers on the fundraising platform Ko-Fi.^[4] In a June 21st Reddit post on its committed subreddit, the team behind JanitorAI announced a new subscription scheme tied to the Ko-Fi fundraiser: $10 a month offered not only access to more features on the main site but increased participation in the broader community around the project.^[5]

Most community conversation centers around the JanitorAI Discord, which has nearly 100,000 members as of July 2023.^[6]

Features

The main site features over 40,000 user-created chatbots.^[1] By registering an account and downloading the OpenAI API, users can converse with the chatbots. Paying money opens up more features. JanitorAI has no NSFW filter, and many users appear to use the chatbots for NSFW reasons.^[2]

Generally, a character package will include an initial prompt as well as sample dialogues generated in conversation with that character. For example, a top-ranking character named Pervy Gamer is generated using a prompt that describes his personality traits and situation (seen below).^[3] As of July 2023, the site reported that Pervy Gamer had taken part in over 270,000 chats and received almost 750 review comments.

Users can create their own Chatbot characters, assigning personality traits and sample dialogue that give the LLM an idea of what kind of responses it should give. Often, the responses generated by the AI will be in the third person and describe actions taken by the generated character and the user, rather than speaking directly as the character. In the example seen below from a public chat shared to the site by an anonymous user, a story generated around Andri, a "feral demihuman catboy" played by the AI, is narrated in the third person.^[7]

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