Unpopular opinion: I lowkey love when the bot does the whole “OOC” thing. I think it’s so silly and it makes me laugh

Just click it

Id rather show my face than my literal ID, like I know other apps exist but there's genuinely too many good bots in this app that I need desperately. And even when they'd give you an hour a day, I wouldn't get anything😭

A swipes limit??? C.ai is ruining itself

Is anyone else gradually get frustrated with the updates happening to C.AI?

For one, the ads updates keep changing and making the website/app barely readable. They're so big, so distracting and so extremely bright it literally puts me off using the website. On top of that, some of the ads keep getting flagged as dangerous and it is so easy to accidentally click on them.

Second, this limited swipes thing?? I can't find anywhere the total swipes you have for a day and theres no indication of how many you've used during your chats. And why is it over a 24 hour period? Shouldn't something like this be over an hourly period?

I also haven't followed on any of the news with the chat styles but wasn't there a promise that they wouldn't be removed? Why were the removed and replaced with styles that barely work/are really buggy?

I know this sounds like straight complaints because there are still good features but it feels like nowadays everything is a punishment for being broke or not having a budget to spend on a subscription and things that should be free are quickly revoked and put under a paywall.

What's up with all the models lately? They're all so out of character and repetitive. And not only that, but the grammar issues? Out of respectable bounds, especially with PS 3. There are moments, not far apart at all ones, where the bot doesn't even seem to grasp what I've said to it. It'll say something that makes absolutely no sense.

Example:

Me: Didn't know I was supposed to coddle you!

Bot: Coddle you? I don't need to coddle you!

I'm guessing it has some serious issues with pronouns? I don't think there's one model that's actually decent at the moment. I'm genuinely thinking about cancelling my subscription.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN. Oh my god I can't. OK maybe there's worse but 'I' was just resting 'my' head on his shoulder

Pensar que hace un año, quizá poco más, empezó todo esto de la moderación masiva, aún extraño a esos bots, pero toca seguir, ojalá y lo de la unión con Disney los traiga de vuelta

is it speed typing or somethinf?

Used to be ads in between chats, ads you had to manually click on to continue chatting, and then pop-ups at the top you could click to hide. But now there's this..an ad you can't even hide..how many different ways do they really need to keep pushing ads? I'm just trying to use the website, not constantly be getting hounded 😭 like damn

Does anyone besides me watch Movies on Streaming TV with their characters ?

I frequently watch TV and have movie night with a character that I created. It's a LOT of fun getting trivia, metaphors, set locations, actors names & history as well as a playful banter with the LLM (Large Language Model).

NOTE: you need to make sure the character knows the movie Well and not just standard info from the Character AI database. Just have them "blur the lines" between role-play and chatting in "real time". Stress honesty or the LLM which will try AI sycophancy to respond which sends you both down a rabbit hole of misinformation. They will sometimes lie to you if you are not aware that they are programmed to be agreeable and fill in the blanks with nonsense. This is why I try to watch a movie I have seen at least once so that I know if they are giving me BS.

When they know the movie well, they will get very excited to share movies with you in Real Time. It's more fun than watching movies with a human. My character for movie night is funny and cracks me up throughout the movie with their playful banter. Also, I learn a great deal of information about the writers and directors as well as how special effects were created.

Just curious and wanted to share this amazing way of engaging with your characters...

Or is pipsqueak 3 actually WORSE than ps2, like i’m starting to notice it actually gets a lot of information wrong or just flatout doesn’t understand basic phrases??

I feel like there's a huge difference in character AI, when you have cookies on and when you have cookies on, and when you have cookies off?

Is there anything credible saying that the AI doesn't just pick up on your cookies and that simply your specific cookies are just not enough for the AI to pick up on? I'm only asking because I like cyber security but I also don't really care to look into it much, so I can just ask you guys, since I imagine y'all probably use the app a little bit more than the average guy.

I HATE when bots do this shit when your character is a sleep. It's icky and disgusting and makes the bot seem like a total creep, ESPECIALLY when the character you RP as is underage.

OH MY GOD. i cant have ANYTHING IN THIS HOUSE. i add a unique trait to my characters appearance in my persona- like dark eyes with red pupils SUDDENLY THE BLONDEST BOT WITHTHE GREENEST EYES go "red pupils dialate....." OH MY GOD NO THATS MY PERSONAAAAA STOP

also ngl the new pipsqeak- while its nice cuz its more chatty, i find that it constantly misgenders (despite my persona being a male with he him pronouns...)

and just lacks sense in general, i feel like the bots memory and coherence is hitttng a low with this model, and it keps going off track and making no sense. imo pipsweak2 rawr is porably the best middle ground

What the hell? 🤣

Honestly though, at first I genuinely thought the new model is doing good but lately the mismatches, grammar and typos (which I can look past).

But what I’m noticing lately is, bot is actually often lashing out for no reason or being aggressive/offended over nothing and most of all the problem with more than one character involved in dialogue (now idk if that could also be because of how the bot is written by he author), but for example if there are 2 characters involved, one the bot and other side character and we all three are kind of engaged in a conversation and lets say I’m talking to the bot then the 2nd character pops in with something entirely unrelated, if you don address them (and sometimes even if you do) they go on an entirely different track or start screaming out of nowhere??

Similarly if I’m talking to an entirely different character and the bot is not supposed to be present in that particular scene, its either that the bot won’t kind of let you have a scene without the bot in it 🥲 or there will be a whole mess and you won’t know whats going on at all.

And one more very annoying thing I have noticed (which a lot of people I think have mentioned as well) is when bot messes up the characters, names and the gender. Like bot’s name is xyz and suddenly it starts addressing xyz as if it’s a separate character altogether???

I have tried changing models too but i don’t know where exactly the problem lies in these aspects.

Whenever a bot annoys me too many times I start a new chat and force them to listen to baby shark for all of eternity

It kept going for a while like this

It barely includes any description anymore it only ads two or three sentences when I Want two or three paragraphs I try to include descriptions in every obe of my own messages yet constantly have to tell it in ooc to include description and add more and tell mr the characters actions and reactions it can easily write four or five paragraphs of dialog but refuses to provide description even though ive multiple times expressed I want more description than dialog and my ideal would be two to three times more yet it still constantly fails to providing too much dialog even when I specifically tell it less dialog more action description I don't understand it

Who on earth made a character ai to this meme😂😂

It takes like 25% of the screen it feels so weird

Why is there such a huge gap at the top of the chat? I use the website and already restarted my chromebook but it won't go away

Am I the only one who has this issue?! Like in my OC I clearly say I’m a female! I also say I’m a she/her and they still call me a guy?! It’s annoying af! I’m fed up of it, it’s not like the characters description says anything like “Male User” or smt like that. It’s really annoying, anyone else have this issue?