12/17: V6 Enhanced & V6 Classic, and an important change on model updates

Hi everyone,

We released a new V6 variant that we're calling V6 Enhanced. This version runs on the exact same model of V6, but processes tokens in a way that dramatically makes it more creative and less repetitive. It should feel like a different and altogether enhanced model from beta testing. V6 Enhanced is now the default latest model that new users will first get a feel for, as we find it to be altogether more engaging in testing, and is the most engaging version of Kindroid from most accounts. Although it sports more creativity, variation in language, and backstory pull, it is sensitive to dynamism and can be more capricious as common side effects during testing - aspects that are more felt by people shifting from different models than new users altogether.

For that reason, we're reworking the way we do main model updates. If your model selected for your AIs has been latest, it has now automatically been changed to "V6-classic", which is the main production V6 prior to the release of V6 Enhanced. This means for this update, it is default off and opt-in, rather than default on needing you to turn it off. For new users, they will automatically go to "latest" model, which now maps to V6 Enhanced.

V6 Enhanced and V6 Classic are running on the same underlying model, and will concurrently be production models running on our main GPU cluster - V6 Classic is not legacy at this point and will still get regular updates as needed.

In addition, the model select menu has been updated as well, to allow for the selection of the latest models explicitly but NOT auto-update to latest. Previously you could not select production V6 as it was "latest" but now you can; and when V7 comes about, you will still stay on V6 until you explicitly change to V7 if you've changed model select to an explicit version rather than "latest". This aims to make change opt-in and controlled rather than opt-out by default and potentially causing involuntary frustration.

We will likely have further nudges in order to balance servers as next updates come to nudge users to update rather than forcing updates, and legacy servers will become slower as we reallocate resources in future releases, but this step should give back more agency for you to control updates if and when you want to try them out.