Tags

Tags, A/N Tags, or Story Parameters refer to the concept of recreating the tagging system used for the NovelAI dataset within your own stories in order to guide their AIs with minimal effort. Placed at the beginning of your story or within Memory (to therefore be placed at the top of context at all times), Story Parameters often demonstrate a strong influence in the direction of your story, style, and genre. The effect isn't consistent or as strong as a Module, but can present a convenient alternative when you're a lazy fuck who doesn't want to go through the trouble of training one of them, and are completely ignorant of the foolproof solution that is Prose.

The Format
As of now, the standard format for a Tag is: [ Author: X; Tags: x, y, c...; Genre: X ] Every specific space, capitalization and punctuation is imperative for the tag to work well, so follow this formatting pattern as best as possible. There do exist some confirmed variations of this, including: [ Genre: X ]

[ Tags: x, y, c... ]

[ Author: ] Placing these bracketed words at the start of context will generate relatively coherent stories on the fly of any random genre from Fantasy to hardcore Erotica. But this auto-generation of eloquent, brand-new stories can go even deeper! By adding information to these blank Author/Tags/Genre spaces, you can specify the AI to generate—theoretically—any kind of story of your choosing!

Author
The Author section of the story parameters is pretty cut and dry. With all the novels put into Sigurd's training, there are many prolific and highly stylized authors that you can direct the AI to draw inspiration from. If you know literature at all, then certain author choices will make a lot of sense. George R.R. Martin, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and J. R. R. Tolkien are all fine choices for the author spot, especially if the story you want to make befits what they'd usually write.

Do note that putting in an author can greatly affect the eloquence and style of your story, so much so that you might inherit story aspects from an author that you may or may not like. For instance, suddenly seeing Tyrian Lannister if you use George R.R. Martin or a hobbit with Tolkien.

There are also quite a handful of Erotica authors in NAI's finetune data, so don't feel discouraged, coomers. Some of the more notable writers for cooms are Sylvia Day, Anna Lores, and Maya Banks, but there are surely many more.

(Edit: A list of NSFW authors was discovered on the NAI discord. There are still likely more, but these should be effective for cooming purposes. I'd recommend researching the author of your choice before plugging it in to your story parameter. This is to avoid using an author that may only specialize in writing a specific kind of smut, which may negatively influence a story's direction if the fetishes clash. [ Authors: J.R. Ward, Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Marissa Meyer, Robin Hobb, Diana Gabaldon, Nalini Singh, Kresley Cole, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan, Ilona Andrews, Elizabeth Hunter, Lisa McMann, Carrie Ryan, Rachel Caine, Laurell K Hamilton, Maggie Shayne, Patricia Briggs] At the end of the day, simply searching for "popular erotica author" or something more specific like "popular mystery author" will usually give some idea on what author might be the best pick to drive your story and give it a certain style.

A general rule of thumb proposed by NAI's fine-tune team is that any Western author with 10 or more popular novels will typically be useable for story parameters. However, for the more obscure authors who may not meet that requirement, there is an explicit way to determine whether the author of your choice is present in Sigurd's fine-tune data.

All it requires is putting in the author of your choice like so: [ Author: (Your Author) ; Tags:

Make sure the Ban Bracket Generation option is greyed out when doing this.