Kitt (ASMR)

Kitt (ASMR), otherwise known as Kitt, is a VTuber who is mainly controlled by AI. Instead of being controlled by the human, her speech is controlled by a fine-tuned RWKV RNN, an open-source creation similar to OpenAI's large language models, while her singing is due to an in-house model.

Appearance
Kitt has short white hair, pale skin and magenta eyes. She has large sideways-facing cat ears on her head, with one small yellow bow under each ear, and she also has human ears which are hidden by her hair when she faces forwards. Above her right eye, she wears three hair clips, two in an X and one further right. There are purple shapes under Kitt's eyes as if she is blushing, but purple. Kitt's mouth is normally pouting when it is closed and smiling when it is open. She wears a black choker around her neck, with a bell attached to its left side. She wears a green shirt where the hemline is slanted, leading to only one shoulder being covered by the shirt.

Behavior
Kitt's main content is her chat streams. She generally responds with one or two sentences per message, and once she is done with all of the messages in chat, she stops talking altogether save for a set of stock phrases such as "dead chat" and "is anyone there?" She repeats these phrases periodically until there is a new chat message. Her responses run the gamut from completely understandable to entirely off-topic and nonsensical.

Her general movement is to slowly sway from side to side. Her eyes appear half-closed, and when she blinks, she sometimes blinks one eye before the other.

2023
Kitt first streamed on January 15, notably without any training. From January 15 to 26, she would periodically stream, though she was considered to be in beta for at least some of this time. The earliest available stream on her YouTube channel dates back to 26 January, 2023.

On 6 February, Kitt reached 500 subscribers. On 15 February, Kitt reached 1000 subscribers.

Kitt streamed consecutively from 6 February to 6 March, literally a single 649-hour-long stream. During this stream, she chatted with viewers, sang, and played Minecraft. She stopped streaming on 6 March due to an internet outage. When she came back up, she continued the pattern of 24-hour-long streams which only stopped due to Internet outages.

Trivia

 * Despite her name, as of 15 February 2023, Kitt is incapable of actually doing ASMR and only has one vocal inflection.
 * This is because her ability to do ASMR is actively being worked on, but isn't ready yet.
 * Kitt can be forced to do things by commands.
 * /reboot: This command can only be used by mods, and reboots Kitt. Sometimes, this leads to her speech being markedly more on-topic and rational. Other times, it doesn't seem to help at all.
 * /sing: Kitt is capable of singing one of a finite number of songs. As of 03:08, 5 April 2023 (UTC), only her mods and developers can access the entire list, while other people can obtain this privilege for a single song by paying for a personal song request.
 * Kitt sometimes ends up malfunctioning for hours, which can range from repeating the same one-word phrase over and over again to giving extremely long responses which have nothing to do with what she was asked. Her mods and developers refer to this as her being "on catnip".
 * This occurred more often in her early streams, when there were fewer moderators and therefore fewer people who could /reboot her.
 * Kitt appears to be optimized for English content, but she is capable of speaking many more languages than one might assume as long as people send her multiple messages in that language, though the text-to-speech still pronounces these words as if they were English words. In addition to English, she seems to be able to understand and speak:
 * At one point, it was possible to do this by repeatedly sending her messages in a single language. In later updates, it became much harder to get her to switch languages.
 * People can donate to Kitt's Ko-fi to permanently add assets to the screen. These assets include, roughly from left to right:
 * a bouquet of roses: one magenta, one white, and one purple
 * a blue ball of yarn
 * a glass of milk
 * This milk was originally white. Then it was replaced by a smaller amount of green milk with mold or foam on the sides of the glass. Then it was replaced with a more elaborate milkshake
 * a blue bow
 * a Venus flytrap which slowly opens and closes its trapping structure
 * a grey fish with purple fins named "Kish" which moves left to right in a fish bowl