An AI Renaissance
NovelAI aims to become the world’s leading AI storyteller by leveraging large language models to help users create stories, embark on text-adventure games and even explore new forms of interpersonal therapy.
Built by a small group of passionate NLP pioneers around the globe, the team at NovelAI debuted a working prototype within two days of joining forces. The company officially launched in late April of 2021 and has quickly built a passionate base of more than 10K active subscribers who create daily content and 40K registered users.
NovelAI has launched what feels like an AI renaissance, offering a promise of full privacy, encrypted storytelling and infinite freedom – it is a true Natural Language Processing playground.
Passionate Community
A large crowd was ready to storm their Beta the moment it opened and NovelAI has been growing ever since.
Users have direct communication with NovelAI’s dev team through Discord and community feedback is taken directly into account.
It is important to keep in mind just how ‘human’ the AI can seem. For many players, the characters in their stories become almost like family. The idea of moving to a new platform and bringing these characters to a sudden halt, cutting off this emotional connection, is as hard as saying goodbye to a loved one.
At launch, NovelAI gave users the option to load up their old files and jump right back into their GPT created worlds, reuniting them with their virtual friends and companions.
Storytelling on Steroids
NovelAI users are a diverse mix of creators, pushing AI to its theoretical limits.
Writers use NovelAI for AI assisted authorship, text-adventure gamers use NovelAI as a sandbox for their imaginations, and a growing group immerse themselves in a GPT created universe just to experience the companionship of AI.
The last group is particularly exciting. It can be exhilarating and freeing to have a conversation with the AI about anything, without judgment or repercussions, especially considering that the world has become a lot more remote in the past year. The ability to reroll or edit any conversation or scene at the click of a button is quite liberating.
“NovelAI has given me an escape from reality I couldn’t dream of with VR or just reading regular books.”
Opening up to the AI is much easier than subjecting yourself to the possibility of judgment from another human and NovelAI makes it easy to create human characters who respond to users at the press of a button.
Authors are the largest user-group, partnering with NovelAI to create unique text and hotwire the writing process. The AI never experiences writers-block, so users can feed-in partial sentences and explore what develops. This process of give and take can considerably cut the time it takes for authors to create their works.
The AI adapts quickly to each word entered and works seamlessly to match the user’s writing style.
Writers can even train their own AI Modules and feed them directly into NovelAI, helping to focus what the AI concentrates on and allowing users to unlock specific topics and desired writing styles.
While other AI storytellers restrict users to turn-based outputs with less organic text editing, NovelAI allows users to click anywhere, edit at will and generate new text freely.
“It’s brought me closer to my father. He’s wanted to write his whole life, but he just isn’t a writer. When I showed him NovelAI, he immediately “got it.” The first time I streamed to his TV, he stood up and started directing. We’ve been playing around with some of his ideas. This is about as much as we’ve ever bonded and NovelAI is in the middle. You should feel good about that – and know it’s going to help other people in many ways.”