Chutes is paid now. What the .

Okay, mini-tangent, I absolute fucking DESPISE paying for anything AI related. That’s why I use Janitor in the first place, there’s so few free alternatives. Every single “only pay” or “limited free” AI anything feels like a fucking scam, since it’s basically just stealing information or art or something every single time. It feels wrong to have to pay for something like that.

I heard Chutes is working out something for its older users or something, which I hope is true, but for the moment, I can’t use DeepSeek anymore. I don’t care if the price is minuscule, I’m not paying even half a cent for AI. If anyone has free, unlimited alternatives (not payed, doesn’t have message limit, and can do NSFW), please let me know in the reviews. And don’t suggest Gemini, I don’t particularly trust Google, and either way, Google would murder me for NSFW. For now, I’ll TRY using JLLM, but a few of my chats are practically invalidated thanks to some having huge token counts.

Also, this Chutes bullshit means that the Persona 5 RPG I’m developing for Proxy users is being put on hold. I can’t test it if I literally don’t have Proxy.

Edit: okay, after looking into the situation a little bit more, I can’t blame Chutes’ creators for the change. Don’t get me wrong, I hate it still, but they apparently altered things because people kept making alt accounts every time they ran out of free messages for LLMs that had free trial limits... which confuses me, because honestly, when Chutes was free, I never actually ran into those limits in the first place. Either way, Chutes decided to price tag all of the LLMs it had available because of these alt users flooding the platform too badly, which I can definitely understand to an extent...

...Would’ve appreciated it if they JUST added alt protection, though...