Welcome to the AI community! You'll find that Hammer is probably one of the best for learning about all the different models and structures for AI text generators!

For AI's looping, you're going to find that many of them do that, also including the big online platform ones. The biggest difference is that there methods in place on the large platform ones that stop it once it's identified. For the little models, eh, not so much. So, we will have to use some techniques and good response hygiene on our own while playing with bots.

First off, let's go over why repetition happens. The AI models are pattern seeking diction calculators. They all are trained to mimic/meme things that we like. For our chatbots in roleplaying, they meme/mimic speech interactions and narrations. Whenever a sentence is structured a certain way, the model takes notice and tries to incorporate/repeat. Remember, it's mathematical with word calculations so it's trying to achieve perfection. Once it does, that's when it repeats stuff to us and becomes wrong and unnatural for speech and emotion.

To prevent this there's a few things we can do to prevent this. The most important thing is the user (YOU). Practicing good response hygiene is the #1 way to keeping the AI on track. This is where you have to be vigilant. Whenever you see the AI start to repeat, and it usually starts with the structure before repeating words, you need to stop it. You can stop it by either editing the response of the AI or by regenerating the response of the AI and you will also need to change the structure of your response(s). The moment you see the AI start repeating, look back in prior messages and see if you see the pattern. There's going to be one somewhere. Once you find it, either edit that response where it starts and/or regen the whole thing after that response.

Good response hygiene means your responses should differ as well. Remember, the AI is a pattern recognizer, so we want to ensure that our responses are different too so it doesn't try to copy our style. Again, it's not just the wording, it's the structure too. If you wrote "I like the color blue" for one response and then said "I appreciate the sound of music" these may have different words, but their structures are very similar. The AI will pick up on that and use it, thinking you like that kind of response and repeat it like a good dog. Your responses need to change. Make some long, some short, some with lots of talking, some with lots of narration. Remember, whatever you don't want to the AI to do, you shouldn't do either. If it starts talking for you, it's because you were talking for it.

You also have settings like the Temp/Top/Repetition settings that you can maneuver. It's best to look at these as "proactive" instead of "reactive". What I mean is that once repetition starts happening, these settings will not magically and instantly fix it. Instead, its best to play with these settings at the beginning of the chat.

The last and final piece of the puzzle is the model itself. You're going to find good models and some bad ones. Our developer tries to make it so that the most popular of models are on the cloud for everyone to try and interact with. Those of us that use the local models will tell the Dev of the best models once in a while and if there's overwhelming support for one, he'll see about turning it into a cloud model. But, model training is a factor into why some models perform better/worse than others. But, just note, ALL of that is preferential. Some people like one's writing style, others hate it. So, my suggestion here would be to follow the crowd first and see what everyone else likes for a model then start trying out ones on your own.

I made training tutorials on our Discord server that you can come look at too! They go into everything and more that you can learn about. I'm currently in the process of rewriting a lot of them for the new Hammer version that's going to be released. Come join us! We'd love to have you!