The Curse of… No, Wait! The Blessings are upon us!

On a day such as this, one could not have expected better news. Z.AI has announced that, over the next few weeks, GLM-5 should be made available to all lite users.

The email. Fresh and real. You can almost taste it.

I’m excited to experience the improvements GLM-5 has made over 4.7. The team at Z.AI has made note of the immense RP community behind their LLM, and have taken steps to cater to that community as well. Specifically, improvements on long-text consistency and complex character developments were noted. When I was reading some reddit posts on it, some users remarked how impressively natural the dialogue felt compared to GLM 4.7. SillyTavern Weekly: DeepSeek V4, Kimi

GLM-5 is a 744B MoE model, and creative writing is a noted improvement area over GLM-4.7. NC Bench scores GLM-5 at 83–88% on prose quality across fantasy, horror, literary fiction, and mystery scenarios, measuring things like avoiding passive voice, weak dialogue tags, and AI-isms. That’s a meaningful jump for immersive RP output. – Perplexity

I’m a big GLM fan, but I’m also a big saving money fan (as we all know, tokens cost money)! Z.AI’s Lite subscription is an incredible bang-for-your-buck, and is a great LLM for roleplaying purposes. It’s actually my go-to, and I’m still rocking GLM 4.7 daily. The announcement is a most joyous one, and I’ll be releasing content catered towards GLM-5 over the coming weeks as I get an opportunity to experiment further with the LLM. SillyTavern Weekly: GLM 5.2, DeepSeek

Z.AI GLM-5 lite users rejoice!

**Note: If you’re looking for a suitable preset to be used with GLM-5/4.7, look no further. Check out my article on Stab’s Directive Hierarchy for SillyTavern and GLM-4.7 / Gemini 3.0

The Curse of Knowing

WorldInfo Recommender: Hands-Off Worldbuilding

SillyTavern WorldInfo Recommender is one of my most used tools. As your stories continue to expand in the world of SillyTavern, you’re going to want something that is going to aid in streamlining the process of creation. Thinking, creating, and manifesting new ideas can be exhausting (especially when you’re out of ideas!). Tools, such as lorebooks, help us implement and keep track of these new and old details. They feed the relevant information the our LLMs so that they can weave the tale. For some, creating and updating a lorebook is one of the more intensive things you can do in SillyTavern. It can be tiring to constantly decide things such as: What’s important? What’s relevant? What’s a key detail? So on, and so on. At times, we want to be able to just partake in the story while maintaining a hands-off approach. This is where WorldInfo-Recommender by bmen25124 comes in. SillyTavern Message Summarize Extension: Qvink Memory

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The Curse of Forgetting

Qvink Memory and Why SillyTavern Summarize Extension Simply Isn’t Enough

When I first started using SillyTavern, I was truly taken aback by the number of options presented to the user compared to the broader market of AI-Chatbot websites. The flexibility of being able to tweak almost every single aspect of your experience is something that very little services offer (One of the closer ones being DreamGen). However, as my stories grew larger, and my tokens grew heftier (As will yours!), I began to research ways in which I could cut back on my tokenization in order to preserve my context. That’s when I discovered a third-party SillyTavern message summarize extension by qvink, called MessageSummarize. It has proven to be an invaluable tool when it comes to preserving memory over long, bigger-than-life narratives. Below are some brief explanations, as well as an in-depth guide to getting started. Let’s begin!

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