u/Original-Pen-1619

Hi, it's been 2 months since I got a NovelAI subscription. Actually, I'm coming from Grok — I used to use it for text-based role-playing games, and it excelled at that, until xAI put weekly limits on it, which completely destroyed its usability. So I discovered NovelAI, it's good, you get a lot of control, you're not limited, but I have a problem: I'm always fighting with the AI to stay in control of my narration. Very often the AI will ignore me when I'm playing in text adventure mode, ignoring everything my hero does and says, and take total control of the story instead. How do I avoid this? I'm tired of fighting against the AI.

A while back, I got back into Sea of Thieves with the goal of getting the Skeleton Curse. I'm mediocre to bad at PvP, but I figured it would be fine. When the Hourglass of Fate came out, I was matched against players roughly at my level.

Now, though, it's unplayable. I only run into level 100+ players, I get completely destroyed, I win maybe 1 fight out of 10, and I'm not progressing at all. And I'm not having fun.

Rare really needs to do something about this. Grinding the Skeleton Curse as a PvP beginner is torture — I've started thinking that losing on purpose over and over would honestly be faster.

At the very least, if a player at your skill level can't be matched, maybe throw them into a PvE encounter instead. I don't know, but as it stands right now, it's just unplayable.

When I subscribed to Grok, it was mainly for its textual accuracy and its ability to avoid saying nonsense, unlike other AIs. When I talked to it about my favorite niche topic (Star Citizen), it would do research and not invent information like other AIs. Since then, with each new model, the accuracy of its information has gotten worse and worse, and with model 4.3, it's become impossible to get a message without it making up information or being wrong.

I'm disappointed and don't know what to do. It seems like there are no other AIs on the market anymore. I feel like I can't have a discussion with anyone on a niche topic without these hallucinations.