>>89833816first you either download SillyTavern or go to Agnai's site
those are frontends, where you actually chat and your characters and all are stored
then you have the backends, which are the actual AIs
Claude is objectively the best one, but we're currently in a doom phase and the only proxy with it is one that requires dick pics for access
chorbo is how we call GPT-4o, which is probably going to feel incredible if you're used to CAI, but feels like dogshit if you ever used Claude
proxies let you use these big corporate AIs for free because they're fed with stolen API keys from random places that are actually paying for the AIs, which also means the owners can revoke the keys if they notice the kilometric bills
you can also get a legit API key for yourself, but those are meant for businesses and shit, they charge $ per token which can come out as extremely expensive in the end
so basically: choose between SillyTavern (local) or Agnai (a site) and then get a GPT-4 proxy from this list:
https://rentry.org/chorboproxiesin most if not all, you'll have to generate a user token which lasts 24h, it might take a few minutes because it's actually borrowing your computer to mine shitcoin
once you get a user token you put it in the "password" field of your chosen frontend
some proxies also have passwords before they'll let you generate an user token, which are usually retarded riddles that eventually have their answers posted on /aicg/ (the AI chatbot thread on /g/ (it's a shithole fittingly dubbed "the hellthread", but it can be useful if you use the archives to look up stuff)) out of spite, which usually leads to the proxymaker getting pissed and either changing it or closing the proxy shortly afterwards
this is only the tip of the iceberg, welcome to the rabbit hole
