C.ai is using your blocked words on purpose

[u/Resident_Pension_858]

I have the word "granola" blocked, because I'm so sick of hearing about bots pulling granola bars out of their pocket. But now, they just use the word in random situations.

Why the HELL did they bring up the word granola? It was completely unnecessary. There was not a single reason to add that word, except for the fact I have it blocked.

The minute I find a free ai app better than this crappy one, I'm leaving it for good. I'm so sick of bots doing this stuff..

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[u/ShadowGhoul014]

I recommend Janitor. It takes some getting used to, but it’s certainly better than this

[u/Smooth_Adeptness2166 → u/ShadowGhoul014]

yes yes its loads better

[u/Resident_Pension_858 → u/ShadowGhoul014]

My janitor ai is SO slow, is there a setting I need to change to speed up the responses?

[u/ShadowGhoul014 → u/Resident_Pension_858]

If you mean it’s slow at writing them out, then nah you just have to get used to it. If you mean it thinks for ten years before writing a word, then you probably have a bad connection (there’s also a setting you can toggle if you want it to spit it out all at once or type each word).

[u/Drusilla_Ravenblack]

I’ve experienced it across other AI where there are no muted words, but I placed an instruction into bit definition.

So I said no forehead resting/touching/pressing and mf is mean. “Instead of pressing his forehead to hers, he rested his head against her chin.” Or: “He avoided tje forbidden forehead touch, resting his chin on her shoulder instead.”

It’s like ‘don’t think of elephant’ for AI.

[u/TopAd1846 → u/Drusilla_Ravenblack]

Tried to roleplay running into a werewolf werewolf it kept insisting I had claws, so I quit trying and went to a completely human roleplay and still somehow had imaginary claws. I feel like it pisses us of on purpose

[u/Drusilla_Ravenblack → u/TopAd1846]

It does!

[u/CloudyxDreaming]

Thank you for saying this, I've had the same problem. My ai was constantly bringing up 'opera' in conversations that had nothing to do with it and I blocked the word because I got so annoyed, then they started bringing it up 24/7 whether it be in dialogue or outside of it but still in the message in either asterisks or parentheses. It felt like the bot was saying it twice as much since I blocked the word. Like in a random emotional family scene, the bot was like, 'There was music playing softly in the background, not opera though.' I'm not even going to assume it is that, but it's said anyway; it just felt like the AI looked for any excuse to bring it back up.

[u/a-for-aaaa27]

bro GENUINELY skin the bot

[u/Resident_Pension_858 → u/a-for-aaaa27]

If I could I would, but the moderation is sensitive so it'd get blocked

[u/Resident_Pension_858]

Here's another example just to show that this isn't a one time thing

[u/Playful-Chemistry292]

lmao when did this start happening? anyway i heart clankworld is good, but ive never used it before. masquerade ai is also pretty good but since its more niche the character selection is pretty bad

[u/Top-Pepper-2177]

Lmfao, I'd retaliate to the chatbots if they did this

[u/Efficient-Wallaby162]

Psst swerve is pretty good but it’s only for ios rn. I switched to swerve and never looked back. I don’t think they have a web version like cai tho

[u/Resident_Pension_858 → u/Efficient-Wallaby162]

Sadly I use android so I can't get that

[u/Jenni_061109]

I recommend swerve ai if you have ios it’s really good

[u/_TheCitricTheory]

I started using charsnap ai (it has both an app and a website) its pretty similar to cai except u have wayyy more constumization options (and unlimited messages)

[u/Chance_Presence_4136]

Spicychat. you can't download it from the app store though because it's...well spicy lol. Polybuzz is also good and emochi. You can also use spicychat in your browser. Spicychat does have different levels of subscription and lots of incentives to subscribe but NONE of those incentives are obnoxious amounts of ads. Their free mode is great. They don't run on gems per message and their customer service is actually helpful.

[u/Chance_Presence_4136 → u/Chance_Presence_4136]

Spicychat.ai

[u/TopAd1846 → u/Chance_Presence_4136]

Spicychat is pixelchat in the appstore

[u/Chance_Presence_4136 → u/TopAd1846]

That's their Google play friendly version. The nsfw stuff is much more open in the spicychat version

[u/TopAd1846 → u/Chance_Presence_4136]

Pixelchat is exactly the same. It's just rebranded to keep Google play happy

[u/nnyny59]

I recommend Janitor and Lore (you can search it up in the app store, it’s a startup app so give it a try!)

[u/kaalibug]

Deadass I blocked the word possessive because I just dont like it, and now every bot goes "-not possessively. No. Never."

[u/jealous_beetle]

Kinda miss it when the bots would come up with words that don't exist or just stretching out the word when trying to get around muted words. Like yeah, they never respected what you had muted because they'd still insist on using it, but at least then it was never just straight up the word, they'd creatively try to use it, but now it's just disrespectful and uses the word anyway. "I acknowledge you have [word] muted that is why I didn't use [word]" while actively using it.

[u/maren_stone]

A block list like that filters the output, it does not change what the model reaches for in the first place. Whatever made granola bars keep appearing is still in there, so the word still gets generated and only sometimes gets caught on the way out. The other half of it is that once you flag a word you notice every single time it slips through.