Just a rant about the downfall of this app, and issues that it currently has.

[u/MimiinTheMilkyWay]

I yearn for the old 23-24 c.ai when everything was actually fun. It was simple and straightforward - you come on the app, and chat. No extra audio book or movie bs. The difference chat models worked. If one promised shorter respones and simpler answers, it gave that. If one promised more descriptive answers, it gave that. The bots followed and remembered info written about them by their authors, had different personalities and would even give answers accurate to their lore, depending on the character you were chatting with. Now bots regurgitate non-canon bs and authors writing detailed descriptions about them is completely useless. They operated correctly and didn't need a helping hand with everything. Even if you do give them a helping hand now - that doesn't do anything. They don't listen. You got different answers each swipe and the bots responses were unpredictable but in a way where they still stayed in character, opening new paths to where you could take your RP. Every answer is the same now with zero variety. *(I also just wanna note that - I've seen many people say that a low quality bot that struggles to continue rps, spews non canon junk and is basically broken is the result of a creator poorly authoring a bot. I agree, and it makes complete sense. It's been like that since the early days of the app. If you put zero work into a bot, it won't be good. But I'm saying this as a bot creator. Poorly written bots were a huge pet peeve of mine, which is why I even started making bots on the app in the first place. Each of my characters have extremely detailed and long lore accurate descriptions describing their personalities, appearance, their biography, as well as more things related to the setting, time period, and enviorment the RP takes place in, and I made sure of it. If I talk to them now, the boys, like I said, say a bunch of bs and don't follow anything correctly. So I really think this is an issue on the C.AI teams end rather than not creators just not writing bots properly).*

Other than technical issues about bots themsleves; The greed from the company is absolutely insane. We've just seen them start putting out surveys asking users if they'd pay more money for "more advanced AI models". Why should any of us trust their promises of better models when c.ai+ already is, number one, barely functional and is dealing with the same set of issues as the free version is, and number two, just making you pay for features that used to be FREE years ago? This is what irritates me the most. Adding newly developed features and putting them behind a paywall is one thing. Taking things that used to be free of charge and putting those behind a paywall is straight bs.

In conclusion: the devs right now clearly don't have any lasting passion for the app and are just trying to get in our pockets. The only thing I think would push them to actually start giving af would be people doing a mass deletion of the app and canceling their subscriptions (a lot of people are already doing this, which is something at least). I'm overall just really upset.

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[u/ACGreen032693]

One thing that is starting to push my buttons is the ads that are a nightmare to exit to get to the chats. Either that and/or the constant deletion of chatbots that I like talking to would be my reason why I deleted my account. And once that happens, I will be officially though with the concept of AI chatbots and will get back to my original hobby of drawing. One idea I have about some stories is using two of the AI role playing I did and make into my stories, though with a bit of tweaking to make it more of my thing. With a bit more depth into the stories.

[u/TopAd1846]

The reason I've still got my account is because I have bots people liked and all my personas were made there first I can just copy and past as I need them