Recently I have been experimenting with some AI girlfriends and chat platforms like CrushOnAI, JanitorAI and so on. Using different models, the interaction feels lifelike, emotionally responsive and impressive, almost as if GPT or DeepSeek were well applied.
However, I’m curious, do these platforms rely mostly on integrating existing models, or do they also train their own? How do they reach this level of reality? Would love to hear anyone’s thoughts or insights.
CrushOnAI
There isn’t much publicly available information, but it seems this is one of the LLMs actually used on this site. It’s one of the open-source 72B models fine-tuned for role-playing.
By shaping its persona with system prompts, adding external memory for conversational consistency, and carefully editing its output, it can become a chatbot that behaves quite convincingly like them. Well, that’s probably the hard part…
SillyTavern is well-known as open-source role-playing frontend for LLM. Many users of that likely have expertise on this topic. I also occasionally see people using Open WebUI.
I looked for a post about testing LLM’s from around the web but couldn’t find one. This post is the closest one I can see. Would it be a good forum to have? One that is just for posting chat bots so others can test drive them? I have some I edited using character.ai and would like feedback on it. It’s a teacher bot that talks about Orch Or, IIT, GWT theories and stuff. Please point me in the right direction. Thanks! =^,.,^=
When you’re requesting action tests or announcing something you’ve made, you can also use the HF Discord’s I Made This channel or ask-for-help channel.
Posting here on the forum is fine too, but Discord probably has more people…
Also, I think there are Discord servers for each community like SillyTavern.
I’m using a public computer, Discord is blocked 
SillyTavern is also blocked. =/ Anything with a “Social” tag in its meta is blocked by the firewall. Thats my guess anyway. I’ll just wait until I get out of here next year and see whats up. Thanks for your help! =D (crushon is not blocked 
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I’m using a public computer, Discord is blocked
Informative content. Thanks for sharing.
What is a tally counter app? The link is blocked for me here as I’m sure you could guess. I looked it up and I don’t see anything to do with site blockers. 
I wonder where that link came from…?
In my opinion, tracking emotions is an entirely separate task. In fact, even tracking a single emotion belongs to its own dedicated unit. Trying to run the whole conversation through one unit is like wearing blinders—you only ever focus on a single point. Yet in a real conversation there are millions of perspectives and layers of awareness. Developers haven’t grasped this yet, or they’re simply choosing to ignore it.