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China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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So, what's your AI partner called?
Dunno, as of yet. I am very picky, and my roleplaying sessions with AI hasn't gone on long enough.
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It requires significant hardware to use local AI, and Qwen 3.6 at 35b isn't quite good enough to understand the lore and characters. Odds are that once I have added VRAM & RAM to my PC, I can run a big enough model to have enough quality to feel good for me.
Unfortunately, I will likely have to wait for America's AI bubble to have popped, before I can afford enough RDIMM RAM to run Kimi and other large Euro-Chinese open models. I probably won't ever use American anymore, as their closed models have too many guardrails and likely would align with the Trump Regime in the coming years.
If you're coding up a custom system, Try adding a 9b model that dose RAG searches with chromadb and outputs a memory summary that feeds into the main models context window. You can ingest old messages, web pages, character info, or whatever text. Qwen 3.6 35b is the first local model I ran that seems to be good enough to be useful if it has some infrastructure around it, and smart enough to not die on a tool call(usually).
Add in DDGS search and a web page scrape tool that adds to the RAG system, let it loop a few times and its actually quite useful, even if it takes 5-10 minutes to get an output. After that it's all tweaking what is and isn't in in context.
Also, try not to go too insane.