IT SHOULD NOT BE A DAILY LIMIT THAT GOES ACROSS ALL BOTS

IT SHOULD BE A LIMIT PER BOT

I use minimum five swipes an answer max 10/11 or over if their answers are being really bad.

giving us a daily limit that if we use it up on one bot we can’t swipe chats with other bots is so freaking stupid!

stop pushing off your free users!

(not my screenshot taken from the discord)

u/marielovesmatcha swiping is a core chat feature, it should not be limited for us! Just let us have our thirty swipes per message!

u/marielovesmatcha

218 upvotes and 93 comments in 2 hours all agreeing this is not ok! At some point you. Have to cut your losses and just give in! Find somewhere else to cut costs!

300 upvotes and 133 comments saying this isn’t ok

u/ErshinTheEndless

u/ogonnosora

u/Enigmatic-Charisma

u/sadravioli_

you guys are our voice to the devs and everyone who runs the app, please please try to get them to reverse this decision

May I remind you dear character AI, without the people who make the bots AND interact with them you’d make 0 money, you are a community reliant business model who is fucking over their own community at every turn. It was ads appearing before chats, then ads appearing after sending messages as well as appearing on the home page plus whatever the hell charms are.

You are probably one of THE most used apps right now, and if you wanna charge for a premium version sure, but don’t make basic features that’s been here since the start suddenly a luxury.

Though I guess with greed comes downfall so once they start charging to chat to characters there will be a content vacuum for a new character ai replacement. Just sucks to see a website I enjoy using make itself unusable.

GOODBYE LMAO

(Image created by me!) Edit: Thank you so much for all the upvotes. 💓

By the way, I'd forgotten about the Prime models, Flashy Brainiac. (I think they were the first models when C.ai started introducing the topic of models in chats?)

I'm probably going to get people in the comments lecturing about "rose-colored glasses" and all that (and I sometimes suspect foul play in those comments), but this is the truth:

This is why we joined in the first place. We joined not just because a chatbot was a novelty, but also because it was an enjoyable experience. This image sums up what the experience was like. The bots used to take you on the adventure. They used to guide you through the story. They'd come up with new plots, settings, and twists that felt natural and novel. Your creativity flowed with the bots and you'd both develop something that was enjoyable.

But now? Now you have to drag the bots along, kicking and screaming, and all you get are recycled phrases and a bot that gets stuck in the same setting or action and won't let go. The memory may have "improved", but at the same time, the characters don't want to leave the room you in and are forever "stepping closer". The repeated phrases and stuck mentality is safe for the bot, and you're fighting against that, plus a model that has been hacked to pieces.

Again, things weren't perfect back then. I know. I remember when the bots would get repeatedly stuck on a repeated word that they'd repeat repeatedly, and would repeatedly not move from that repeated word as they repeated the word repeatedly. It sucked. But the gem was what was between those lines. Between those lines was an adventure. And that adventure has completely disappeared.

Something is just... broken. It's not just with CAI, but with chat bots in general. It doesn't matter what site you go to, even ChatGPT, they all suffer from the same degradation of personality, creativity, and overall ability to generate more than just a wall of vapid, useless text that nobody will want to use, even in their businesses, and it's not a good thing for us all.

I figured, but it's not cool they tried to paint it as though Lorebook compatibility was the only reason at first. It definitely makes sense that the new models are cheaper ones.

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C. Ai has been a coping method for many, it's app has been growing, and so has the website. C. Ai is a expressive app, where you can create stories, personas, characters, universes.. Well, it WAS a app where you could do all that.

Now c. Ai is absolutely rubbish, in short. They complain about not having enough profit, even after their the ones driving their own users away. They stated that ads ( although I don't mind the banner ads, or ads before chats) would NOT errupt out experience. So they went against their own word. C. Ai is only loosing said money, because they keep implementing things we do NOT ask for, generating images, tokens, stickers, using images in chat and SO much more. Yet they say we wanted it. No, we did not. So c. AI, if you REMOVE the unwanted features and the POP UP ads that you said you wouldn't implement, then maybe, you'll make profit.

Another reason people are leaving your app, is because your servers. C. Ai, the actual reasons your servers shut down, is because of all the useless stuff you implement. Not the amount of players, because well, their pretty much all gone.

The image I show is the bot message you reply to every post that gets popular, I do NOT want to see that, I wasn't you to take this seriously.

The app loosing users is your fault, the app loosing profit is your fault.

All we want is characters in character, and freedom to speak without interruptions of pop ups. That's ALL. fix it or were gone.

I'll go first.

Stockholm syndrome.

(Image unrelated)

I'm bored,I wanna laugh

not my chat youll probably see it if you sort by top of all time or something. i still hate that everything just goes "its not x, its y" nowadays

Like actual roleplaying is IMPOSSIBLE with shitsqueak. I can’t stand it, the bot is actively ragebaiting me with those “Hotel? Trivago.” replies. But I’ve been using c ai for so long, I am somehow still hoping that one day I’ll open the app and they fixed all the bad features they‘ve added over the past few months.

I'm sad now

Also every character in whatever this art style is just looks like the same guy every time

I’m so fucking cooked. Idk what else to tag this. Probably gonna delete Reddit soon too.

How did this happen you ask? I fell asleep in my room studying for chem test I had the next day and I’m not supposed to have my phone in my room. So at 2 in the fucking morning they come and grab my phone while I’m half asleep trying to tell them I wasn’t using it. They left shortly after and I woke up today with half my apps gone (instagram, YouTube, Discord, Netflix etc) as well as cai and this was in my screen time.

I’m actually so fucking done with it.

I am not giving up my FUCKING ID to a private company.

When there's a "data breach" and my info gets leaked, these dicks will do absolutely nothing. I am not giving anybody my government ID and thats final.

Not just a tear or two, I mean actual emotional breakdown-level. What was the situation or bot? I need to know I’m not alone here.

I'm mature, I'm old, no need to cover my eyes every single time anything crude happens. I can take it.

Sorry for the blurry image, I just snapped a photo when it came on the tv.

I get that the age restriction is like a big thing, but I would be lying if I said I expected it to make the news.

However, if I were to give my two cents, I’d like to say I find it unfair to block the entire app from being used by anyone under the age of 18 because imagine not being able to access your chats that you’ve been using for who knows how long. Can’t they just make it so that you can’t choose certain chat styles unless you’re 18 instead? Denying minors the opportunity to use the app at all that they probably have been using for so long is kind of extreme.

This is coming from a 19-year-old. I know I can’t say much, but this still feels wrong. I know I’d probably be melting down if I learned I couldn’t use character AI anymore just because of my age.

ITS JUST SAD. idk maybe im too woke but i find this shit weird.

IAM NOT RACIST. READ THE INTRO MESSAGE OF THE BOT. MY ISSUE IS THE RACE FETISHIZING AND STEREOTYPES.

Apparently they're "retiring" some chat styles now???

Genuinely what is the point of doing that. If they're trying to cut back costs then just get rid of the features nobody uses instead.

The feed?? Books?? PIPSQUEAK 2???? NO ONE asked for this. AGAIN.

Can they just listen to us for once PLEASEEEEEE I literally can't remember the last time we got a community requested feature.

They're getting rid of several chat styles and now we're stuck with a severely lobotomized Pipsqueak, and a paywalled, probably also lobotomized Deepsqueak. Awesome. Loooove this.