What is a good way to get into chat bots?
Let's get this out the gate, I'm not familiar almost at all with API's, and running your own AI, or whatever, I am just a simple consumer who finds a website and tries to chat with characters on it.
I'm in the market for a good website that has user submissions, as I'm a big fan of fictional characters. I also like when the website allows for certain tags (like incest... I like incest roleplay, sue me.) I used JuicyChat for a while, but I felt like it was a bit limited, and I'm pretty sure they removed support for the Incest tag. Understandable, but still disappointing. I moved on to Chub.ai, which has been a fairly decent free chatbot service with exactly what I'm looking for, but the free models are quite lacking, and they have been FAR more lax with tags than I am comfortable with.
I am not one to think having fictional CSAM content freely accessible is a good thing, so the fact that that website has unblocked tags for underage is a problem in my eyes, but that seems to be going away (This is not an open invitation to discuss your personal feelings about the topic, please, you will not change my mind.) so I wouldn't mind staying there, but if anyone has some alternatives that are also free to use and offer a similar style as Chub does, I am open.
My main thing here is that I think I'm ready to subscribe to an AI premium, but this circles back to the starting comment, I don't know how API's work, so how might I go about purchasing a subscription for a premium AI brand and use that API to work with Chub (or other sites.)? Alternatively, what would be the "best" model to subscribe to for semi-surface level NSFW roleplay chats with fictional characters?