alt Hacker NewsAccording to the report, 52% of all open-source AI is used for *roleplaying*. They attribute it to fewer content filters and higher creativity.
I'm pretty surprised by that, but I guess that also selects for people who would use openrouter
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Openrouter has an apps tab. If you look at the free, non-coding models, some apps that feature are: janitor.ai, sillytavern, chub.ai. I'd never heard of them but people seem to be burning millions of tokens enjoying them.
If you rely on AI to write most of your code (instead of using it like Stackoverflow), Claude Code/OpenAI Codex subscription are cheaper than buying tokens. So those users are not on openrouter.
That also stuck out for me, I was wondering if it was video games using openrouter for uptime / inference switching, video games would use a lot of tokens generating dialogue for a few programmer's villages.
> I guess that also selects for people who would use openrouter
It definitely does. OpenRouter is pretty popular among roleplayers and creative writers due to having a wide variety of models available, sometimes providing free access to quality models such as DeepSeek, and lacking any sort of rules against generating "adult" content.
Or maybe it’s just strange classification. I see a lot of prompts on the internet looking like “act as a senior xxx expert with over 15 years of industry experience and answer the following: [insert simple question]”
I hope those are not classified as “roleplaying” the “roleplay” here is just a trick to get better answer from the model, often in a professional setting that has nothing to do with creative writing of NSFW stuff