/aicg/ Halloween 2025 Interviews

Written 10/11/25

Introduction

In the year 2025, another Halloween event was hosted in /aicg/. Like most /aicg/ botmaking events, this was a simple affair; send a few requests, and get something back. Some unique gimmicks were introduced, but that's not what I am here to talk about.
You can find the Rentry for the eventhere.

What I am actually here to talk about is what's in the title, the interviews! You see, I decided to contact every single participant for an interview, conducting them through an AI chatbot card. This page serves to show what happened during this experiment, how it happened, what went wrong, what went right, and of course, the actual interviews themselves!

The Card


To start with, let's talk about the card itself. This here is a version of the card that's been slightly edited, as the greeting normally would have something specific to each creator it was delegated to. Nothing but the greeting has been changed. Feel free to download it and give it a spin, pretend to be your favorite creator!

When I got responses from creators, there was one thing that stood out to me. Just how much her outputs varied depending on preset and model! Apparently, even in the year 2025, some models still can't follow a simple personality and speech patterns. And what's worse, some of them even skipped, changed or added questions! The last part was something I thought about doing, making her ask follow-up questions and such. I decided against it due to the risk of the AI spiraling into endless questions, or making up irrelevant stuff.

In the end, was the card effective? Mostly, yeah. I got most of my questions answered, in one way or another.

Some takeaways about interview cards:
Other than that, not much else to say about it. To think that LLMs aren't exactly the best option for interviews isn't something crazy, and after my own attempt I can safely say that I see little use in having them do that. Other than to cut down costs, obviously.
This experience has just made me interested in how they use AI for job interviews and such. I am lucky to never have experienced an AI job interview myself (though I surely will in the future), and I wonder if they also suffer from issues with the AI making things up. They must at least have a set of questions they tell the AI to use (probably also AI-generated), but still.

The Interviews

(The actually fun part)
To start with, the AI-driven interviews were segmented into two parts: The creator-specific questions, and the generic ones. AI outputs varied between model and preset, and unsurprisingly, responses varied between creators. Some were informative, others were shy, and a few were... nutty, to say the least. One person brought in a goose along with other chaos, but was also one of the only ones (in writing, at least) to comment on the interviewer's name and the origins of that name. Another had a pigeon story!

Observer

"Once I threw a cig butt away and a pigeon picked it off the ground, then proceeded to swallow it whole. I'm still impressed by this."

There was one person who decided that his persona was a holographic simulation avatar thing, speaking for its master. Impatience was also a shared theme among a few of the interviewees. There were no more than 10 questions each, so I do wonder if that was simply because of the chatbot format. Meanwhile, other people took to the stand, speaking their truth when no one else would speak for them.

Enjoyer of the Not-So-Little Things in Life

"I like large breasts."

As I mentioned, there were some demure people. Didn't answer much, but whether that was due to shyness, disinterest or something uniquely them is up in the air. However, one person was extremely shy.

Tomato-Colored Cheeks

[In relation to the email one had to send upon concluding the interview]"Aiiieeeee an email, those make me throw up in panic. Do I really have to?"
(This person never sent the email.)

Surprisingly, it ended up being hard for me to find things to quote. Mostly because everyone was so on topic! It's hard to anonymize people when they do that, especially when talking about their own cards, inspirations or tastes. In hindsight, posting full logs would've been the way to go.

The question about what you would do differently if you could write your card from scratch got a lot of similar responses. Most people wanted to have done more. Be it more quality, another card, more greetings or other ways to bring their vision to life.

One thing that was interesting was how people interacted with the gimmick of the card. After the end of the interview, she was supposed to offer the person interviewed a choice between a free gift card and "robosex", and then ask if they wanted psychoanalysis of their responses. Very few people interacted with this feature of the card. Some people didn't even receive the offer of a gift card! Here I was, thinking I could make a fun breakdown over how many people would choose a free gift card instead of sex with a robot, but yet again, LLMS foil my plans. Oh, and one interviewee made her self-destruct before he could even receive the offer of either.

NICENESS CORNER

And now for something completely different. Close your eyes. Wait, no, open them again. You'll need your eyes for this, because 13 of your secret admirers have sent you cute, hand-written notes! Isn't your heart just melting from looking at them?
(All quotes taken from the "say something nice about the one you made the card for" question during the interview.)

"Well, I can say I've enjoyed your previous bot in a deeper level. And that your requests were really good, too! I wish I could have picked the other one to take on a challenge but alas I've had too many shortcomings writing that request. I really enjoyed having you as a partner, it was a pleasant surprise having to write you something up."

"[TALKING ABOUT THE CREATOR][...] So yea, you put in 110% and it shows. Big fan."

"You probably don't smell too bad, I guess?"

"You probably have some of the better concepts in /aicg/ for sure. I like the settings a lot, even if I don't fuck with a lot of the character archetypes and roles that are established. You seem to like the opposite [REDACTED] that I do... But that's okay. It's okay."

"You're a good kid."

"Ah. You certainly make bots, don't you? You put a lot of work into your bots obviously, multiple images, tons of greetings, fancy pages, tons of tokens. Our style and tasters are completely opposite, but that is no reason to not recognize the effort you put in. I'm always happy to see people making bots, be it [ANON] AI-genned ah ah kino, [SOMEONE]'s shitty gen style giving a bad impression to bots that actually have a ton of effort poured in, or some retard who builds a card around one cool line and thinks they are about to be the next GRRM."

"So this card was asked for by [ANONYMOUS]. Good guy, always testing bots and posting logs. [TALKING ABOUT THE REQUEST] [...] the idea just seemed like something I'd do so I went with it. Although I could've made [THE OBVIOUS], I hadn't done [THE UNOBVIOUS] so I figured why the hell not, I'll [KEEP IT GROOVY]."

"Actually interesting request you made. At first I thought about making [THING-INSPIRED CARD], but then saw the requested tricks and... whatever"

"You're a sweetie pie."

"You have a lot of really interesting card ideas that I don't see people really thinking of. It's also nice to have another [EXPUNGED] with [OMITTED]. There haven't really been a lot of [THESE] posted that weren't [THOSE]. Not since [THAT ONE] stopped posting."

"Cool lad. I'm glad we get along well-ish."

"You went anonymous, so I can't say much about your bots. You did make [REDACTED], so I guess you have some taste."

"I like the bot that they made for the event, [{{char}}]. As someone who doesn't know enough about [THING], I can definitely respect anybody who undergoes the effort to do so. And of course, [{{char}}]'s cute, from [CUTE THING] to [CUTER THING]. [ARCHETYPES] are always funny."



THE FAVORITES

In the interview, one of the generic questions was about which card from the event was their favorite. Being slightly devillish, I neglected to mention that I would keep score, and to make a note if it was the card(s) they received.
Interestingly, it was a fairly even spread. Out of the 13 responses I got, only two cards received two votes. Those being...Haato Sei andObedience! Congratulations on your astounding victory!

2 people either gave a vague answer, or none at all.

And last but not least, those who voted for the cards they received! Out of 13 participants... THREE people chose their own! That's almost a fourth! I can't believe a fourth of creators are incredibly selfish like that...

FINAL COMMENTS

For my final comments, I don't have much to say that I didn't already say to the participants. I hope the readers are enjoying the Halloween cards, even as we are soon moving into December.
So instead, it's time to bring out our interviewees for their own final comments! Take it away, participants!

"Thank you, really.., And I hope everyone had a great time, personally I've been having a great time myself buuuut! Really, I hope everyone's satisfied with their deliveries and a happy Christmas exchange!!"

"No comment other than why the fuck you so horny?"

"Don't give up. Life will be shitty, but you must keep struggling through it. Unless you have terminal cancer or something...if that's the case, maybe sunset yourself if things are that bad, but if you're just a little depressed or moody, that's no reason to mope. Jerk off or drink some booze. Rebalance that brain chemistry and get on task."

"Only a big thanks to [PERSON] for the meal. We can bang now, right?"

"Nope."

"The Halloween event was a lot of fun. I've been doing chatbots for three years now. I've [REDACTED], and now I can't look back on [MEMORIES] without cringing. [MEMORIES...] Sometimes making something serviceable is better than making gimmickslop. This community has changed a lot since those Pygmalion days. Hopefully we can all remember the wisest of words during the dev hate: Through dick, Unity!"

"The event was fun. It was nice to make something I wouldn't normally work on, but boy does the pressure get to you. You know everyone's going to judge it and a lot of shitposters are going to hate everything you do no matter what. But an outlet's an outlet and it's nice to take part in a hobby with a bunch of others. Not sure yet if I'll join the next one, but I'll definitively join one again someday. It's a writing hobby, after all. And I always enjoy a chance to improve on my writing."

"Drink milk, use NoAss, write speech examples and `<memo>`. Also, a bit of analyzes" *adjusts his non-existent glasses and begins to write in heavy ESL syllables*

"Don't let the threadshitters convince you not to participate, I guess. No matter how good an event turnout is, there's always gonna be people saying it's the worst event ever and all the cards are slop and that the event before was the last good one. Lo and behold, the cycle will repeat the next time an event happens. Likely by the same people. I promise you that as long as you put some modicum of effort into it, your assignment will probably like it."

"Wonderwall is a perfectly fine song."

"Thanks to the host of the event for hosting the event (and going above and beyond with the fun MS Paint masterpieces), thanks to [CREATOR] for the card I received, and thanks to everyone who enjoyed the [MY CREATION]. Oh, and thanks for the interview, it was an interesting diversion."

"Go out and experience life or something. Life's too beautiful to stay cooped up. I love my wife. Yeah, idk."

"Idk."