Chub is an online AI roleplay platform that gives users maximum control over their experience, including the ability to fork and export user-generated content, such as characters, lorebooks, and more.
Other platforms often hide character definitions or lack options to fork or easily export user-generated content. They do this to create dependence and encourage users to stay on their website or app. Creators coming to Chub from such platforms often dislike that Chub allows users to fork characters.
What Does It Mean To “Fork” Characters?
When a creator publishes a character and shares it on Chub, the platform lets users fork the character. When others fork a character, they create a copy of it under their account and can modify all its details.
Users often fork a character to create a private copy and modify its details to fit their personal roleplay preferences. Some even improve the character by fleshing them out with additional content and create a public fork to share the modified character with others.
Chub credits the original creator when others publish a forked version that links back to the original character’s page.
Why Can Users Fork Characters On Chub?
Users can export and import characters on Chub. Without the option to fork, users would simply export an existing character, import it, and publish it with the changes they made to it. By allowing users to fork characters, Chub simplifies the process while giving credit to the original creator.
Chub doesn’t like policing its users over how they interact with its LLMs as long as the content follows its Terms of Service. This policy attracts many users to the platform. Forking lets users control their experience by allowing them to modify any character to suit their preferences.
Some Creators Dislike Forking
Creators coming from other restrictive platforms aren’t used to other users having control over their published work. They dislike the idea that others can fork their characters and call it “stealing.”
Instead of understanding that Chub is a platform that operates differently, they demand that the platform make changes and disallow forking. There are also genuine discussions that raise the issue of forked bots, which are exact copies of the original with no changes.
These creators believe that Chub and its users don’t respect their work, and they warn others not to post their creations on the platform if they value their work.
Chub Isn’t Going To Change
If you’re a creator who doesn’t like others modifying their characters and sharing them, you are better off not publishing your work on Chub. Chub isn’t going to change, and its users enjoy being able to modify others’ work to fit their personal preferences.
You can use other platforms that you feel respect your work more, instead of demanding Chub to change its policies.
WyvernChat gives creators the option to disallow forks. Although it supports exporting character cards, it only allows creating private copies of existing characters. You cannot publicly share characters made by others unless you fork them. Alternatively, you could use JanitorAI, which doesn’t allow exporting any content and lets creators keep character definitions and details private.
Why Chub Allows Users To Fork Characters
Unlike other online AI roleplay platforms, Chub provides users with complete control over their experience. This includes the ability to fork and export user-generated content, such as characters, lorebooks, and more.
Chub’s users appreciate the control they have over their experience and often modify characters by forking them to suit their personal preferences. Some creators from other platforms that don’t offer as much control dislike that Chub lets users fork their characters.
They believe that Chub and its users don’t respect their work, and that people who fork their characters are stealing their creations. Chub isn’t going to change its policies, and creators unhappy with this are free to use other platforms that they feel respect their work more.
