$ACT As of mid-2024(?), the Discord server Cyborgism has hosted Ampdot and Janus' latest project with large language models: Act I, an open and collaborative synchronous Discord service where many people and many chatbots can talk to each other, allowing from anything as simple as secretarial queries to as complex as long roleplays and character building. The latter especially stands at odds to intended ideals (namely by groups like Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and a whole coalition of open-source developers) for chatbots to be helpful, harmless, and honest. They're ideals worth pursing, but they also come at a creative -- and maybe even intellectual -- cost as well.