The Unsettling Silence: Has JanitorAI’s JLLM Really Taken a Nosedive?
Lately, the whispers in the AI chatbot communities have turned into a roar. Users across various platforms are voicing concerns about their favorite AI companions, but a particularly loud outcry is coming from the JanitorAI crowd. It seems like everyone is asking the same question: what happened to JLLM?
For those of us who spend a little too much time chatting with bots, a dip in quality is more than just an inconvenience; it can completely derail an ongoing roleplay or even make a platform unusable. This isn’t just about minor bugs anymore; it feels like a fundamental shift, a loss of the very spark that made these AI partners so engaging.
I’ve been seeing a ton of posts about this, but one on r/JanitorAI_Official really hit home. It sums up the widespread frustration with the recent JanitorAI JLLM quality drop, and it echoes sentiments I’ve heard countless times.
Note, this is in no way an attack on the devs, I’m completely uneducated about LLMs and am just venting my frustration.
As someone who’s actually never complained about JLLM before, or cared much for the quality of my chats, the model change in April was so bad I genuinely stopped using it for a month straight. I don’t use proxy because it’s not a viable option to me currently, and even if it is, I don’t want to spend any money on it.
Rerolls don’t do anything but slightly shift the wording around, grammar is still fucked (especially with commas), the entire tone of the bots shifted so that bots who were scripted to be mean just will not be mean, the {{char}} talks less in dialogue and spends more time repeating itself, and now bots won’t even use profanity (even if they were scripted to) or say the names of genitalia. I have observed a genuine quality drop when I compare the replies I used to get before the shift in model, and afterward.
What I’m more confused on is that I haven’t seen a single person enjoy the change and why it was changed when it seems so unpopular. I have not observed any positive change when I see my messages from March-ish to my messages now. JLLM has genuinely become unusable, and what confuses me (as an uneducated person) is as to why this happened when it seemed fine to me beforehand.
Source: r/JanitorAI_Official
The Ripple Effect of a Model Meltdown
Look, this isn’t an isolated incident. The user, u/Weird_Annual1533, perfectly articulates the widespread disappointment that’s been brewing since what they call
Storychat: A Fresh Take Worth Checking Out
While we’re on the topic, here’s something that caught my eye recently. Storychat takes a different approach to some of these pain points.
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