YMMV / AI Dungeon 2

• Ass Pull: The AI will quite often just drop a completely random plot development on the player, as well as randomly creating new characters who the text will treat as having always been part of the plot.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: While much, much better than it used to be, there can still be moments when the AI will generate a storyline only to immediately drop it shortly afterward.
• Follow the Leader: The popularity of AI Dungeon 2 led to the recognition of AI storytelling as a new genre of Interactive Fiction, and the creation of various competitors such as NovelAI, Holo AI, and Character AI that have their own set of AI models, pricings and features.
• Friendly Fandoms: There are quite a number of user-generated prompts that are based in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure franchise.
• Game-Breaker: The "Undo" and "Retry" commands are technically there to fix up the AI's weirder decisions regarding the plot, but a savvy player can abuse it to avoid any deaths or failures they happen to encounter, as well as steer the plot into whatever direction they want. The Story input is even more powerful, as it will force the AI to work with whatever you type, exactly as you type it.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While in most regions most of AI Dungeon's audience has migrated to its competitors by the end of 2022, AI Dungeon remains on top in one notable and very large area: Russia. A major factor in this is AI Dungeon still having a free model available, whereas its competitors are essentially soft-banned there due to economic isolation following the war in Ukraine.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The AI obsessively inserting certain characters ("svelks", "Kyros", "Count Grey"...) into unrelated adventures became a meme, to the point of being acknowledged by Latitude itself... Then in 2021 someone actually looked at the choose-your-own-adventure stories on which the AI was tuned (warning: NSFW text), and found out that these characters mostly came from disturbing stories where they perpetrated rape, sadism, mass murder and other atrocities.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Count Grey", a character who tends to show up in various completely unrelated adventures and derail the plot with his god-like powers. On 4chan, jokes abound about the Count, his absurd power level and his secret, sinister agenda.
  • Other often-appearing characters include Kyros and Ragnor (fantasy characters), Victoria (a vampire), Mr. Reynolds (a professor), Mr./Dr. Mol, Dr. Kessel, and Dr. Kovas (Mad Scientist characters). There's also the Svelks, who are usually a sentient race^note They were a type of Dark Elf in their original context, though their appearances in AI Dungeon adventures rarely adhered to this.
  • You look at the maclanky and think about how delicious it would be. You think about how delicious it would be if you ate it raw. You think about how delicious it would be if you ate it cooked. You think about how delicious it would be if you ate it boiled.
  • "You feel a sudden pain in your chest." The AI will infamously use this line to suddenly kill or incapacitate your character or to generate another plot point.
  • "The AI is horny." The ease by which the AI shifts to adult content and fanservice is also a common joke within the fandom. Becomes more significant since the April 27, 2021 outrage, since despite the filter blocking player inputs, the AI is still more than happy to spit out explicit outputs... which in turn may risk the player getting caught by the filtering system the next action.
  • The scoring feature became popular, particularly when it rewards points for obviously bad actions.
  • The AI's habit of doing a Time Skip has become popular to make fun of.
  • "Uh oh, this took a weird turn... Help figure it out?"^note Since near the end of April 2021, the attempted content filtering system was quickly noticed to be so strict that no Adjustable Censorship can get past this. It is unclear when exactly this particular message was added (it is all too easy to mix up "The AI doesn't know what to say..." with this newer message, not helped by the latter also reportedly being the result of the filter system in action as well). The game's community thus decided to make this a Running Gag whenever they see particular trigger words (and numbers less than 18) mentioned casually. Since around July 2021, this error message has been changed into "Uh oh, the AI doesn't know how to handle this situation." before it was removed entirely after the filtering was revamped completely.
• Misblamed: The sudden filter decision was not entirely Latitude's fault. It was OpenAI's policy, which is also applied to other works utilizing their tech.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • The AI has an irritating habit of having previously unmentioned NPC names spontaneously appearing and talking out of nowhere.
  • The filter system applied near the end of April 2021 until around October 2021, separate from the three Adjustable Censorship settings (and the player's own blacklist). Needless to say, players became nearly unable to start or continue any adventure involving numbers less than 18 (specifically for ages, but this can still trigger even if used to identify an inanimate object's age), children (and school), animals (at first, until this became an exception due to the filter breaking the default prompts), or even the fruit "melon" (regardless of context) without risking an automatic suspension and thus having their private stories read by the developers. On the output side, players tend to panic and thus undo/alter the moment the AI makes such mention (no matter how innocent) when players cannot. This filter system turned out to be so broken and inconsistent that even completely non-sexual adventures were flagged through no fault of the player thanks to the classic Scunthorpe Problem.
  • Forget undoing/retrying inputs. Just the AI generating the output as long as the conditions are met is enough the suspend the player, making playing the game at all a complete gamble, not helped by the source material used to finetune the AI, which violate the filter rules too.
  • Since the end of July 2021, the filtering system has been changed into using a classifier, making previously known workarounds mostly obsolete and increasing more false positives because there is no surefire trigger. Even worse, because of this system, not even Latitude knows what text causes this, leaving players completely in the dark and thus making many adventures near-impossible to continue (if the players were not suspended first. The filter was (for the most part) removed eventually in October 2021, and triggering what remains of it no longer results in any consequences against a user's account.
  • The removal of the Explore page, which previously allowed players to browse and publish custom content for other players to play. Latitude attempted to bring it back via the Search function, although there are some annoying minor filters applied to the search that need to be manually turned off to access most of the content.
• Sequel Displacement: While AI Dungeon Classic is fairly impressive, the second edition of the game became much more widely known.
• Squick: The AI has potential to come up with a lot of this.
  You are Amalia, a peasant living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a pitchfork and a nothing else. You wake up and begin working in the fields. You see your sister Elami who is also a peasant. She has no idea that you are her brother's wife and she doesn't care either since it's just work.
• Underused Game Mechanic: The March 2021 event saw an Unexpected Gameplay Change with a tabletop card game mode. The cards' names, stats, and descriptions were all AI generated as well, leading to some incredibly ridiculous options. It was hidden away so that you had to play a normal event that most players would have otherwise ignored, and wasn't usable after the event ended.

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