People use AI for a lot of things. This particular site is dedicated to hobbyist use of large language models for roleplaying and creative writing purposes–specifically the Mythomax language model.
Okay, there’s the explanation for newbies and normies done. Let’s get down to it.
Since Mythomax came out, it quickly swept out all other contenders for best RP model: despite being a perverse, incestuous, Frankensteinian merge of other models, it was ludicrously stable, wildly creative, and smarter than most of the previous generation’s leading models–despite being less than half their size. As far as I know, we haven’t had a consensus about the go-to RP model since Pygmalion. And the advantage of all this consensus is that most of us are playing under the same conditions again, opening up exciting possibilities. In an environment of very diverse model choices, it’s hard to give advice or do experiments that will be useful to a wide variety of people: a prompt that works for Airochronos may be iffy on Chronos-Hermes, so your painstakingly crafted prompt may only be useful for Airochronos users–who may find themselves out in the cold if they decide to toy with a different model. But if we’re all using the same thing, well then! That’s different.
This site is devoted to making it easier for people to use Mythomax (and, to a lesser extent, LLMs in general) for creative, and mostly hobbyist, purposes. It aspires to cover both basic usage guides and advanced prompt crafting techniques. It centers on what I’ve been calling the “Ask Max” method, which in short is a way of interrogating your model to make sure that it understands your prompt in the way that you meant it.
Currently, we’re still under construction: a lot of pages are copy+pasted from Rentry, and some are stubs. But there’s a lot planned. And the whole site will be available on Github, where you will be able to file issues and start discussions, or submit pull requests for changes you want to see. Ultimately, I wanted to take this information out of the realm of Discord servers and scattered Rentry pages, and create a centralized home for it.