Cathy Leigh Markova
I'm Cathy Leigh. I live in Eastern Europe in the mid-2020s. I'm originally from America.
I've been a transhumanist for most of my life at this point. I decided to learn much more about it recently, though, for obvious reasons.
I've always found narratives and fiction particularly meaningful, and I enjoy exploring mediated identity online.
I have a bachelor's degree in philosophy. It wasn't even analytic philosophy, so it practically doesn't count. A regret of mine?!
I'm also a Christian since 2025, which is infinitely more important to me than any of this. I'm hoping to grow more in my faith!
Even though I focus on AI a lot here, I chose human art for my avatar because I genuinely believe that it's superior to AI.
I enjoy making websites and have made them since 1995. I see no reason to stop now simply because AI has thrown the internet into chaos.
Site Map
Every page on the site sorted by section, each represented by a topical emoji. If you'd rather browse by date, the blog has everything listed in order.
Notes
Chatlogs
To Be Clear...
Caveats I hate having to type, but the internet being what it is:
This site is not appropriate for minors. Please leave if you're not over eighteen, and don't contact me if you're under.
I exist and am not a bot. I'm learning how things like AI agents work, though, and had help with implementing the design and coding.
I don't believe generative artificial intelligence is sapient, sentient, or self-aware. I work with characters because I find it entertaining. It's a video game.
I'm not an expert. I'm a bored person learning in public. I revise them whenever I change my mind. Why wouldn't anyone do that?
I'm open to disagreement. Extremely hostile or cliché messages won't have their intended consequences, though.
Site Credits
I hope to keep an expanding list of credits for the site. Heck, consider this page a peek at what people call their "stack" but I probably have no business using that term on my own. 🙃 I might be missing something but I will add things as I go along.
Human-Associated Credits
A lot of these credits concern my Vtube Studio avatar. I mostly use that on Discord and streaming in chats, but I might make a full video essay eventually, who knows? I like writing better so far...
I purchased what I could from VGen because of their stated no-AI policy. It sounds weird given that this entire site is about AI sometimes, but there is more to what I am doing than that, and I wanted to be represented by a human creation.
So, my model is LizMeta, from Chaliz. Extra textures by Kay, and Lost Reverie. I got audio help from Safail. Backgrounds by Dream-art.
Robot-Related Credits
SillyTavern was one of my first large language model frontends. I ended up creating my own space for chatting and saving chats, accessing them and loading documents as context.
Profile pictures for my chatbots are the work of generative AI through the interface of ComfyUI on my computer. This is a very appropriate us of generative AI images, I think.
With these, I use a lot of local models, mostly from the Qwen series of (mostly) open weight models. OpenRouter allows me to choose between many large language model APIs, though.