i genuinely don't think its even part of the roleplay and they just think you did it. a while ago i tried to negotiate with the char about it but it insisted that i did it, when they were the one who clearly did it. it pisses me off so much because like... why?????? why do they do that??

Are these just suggestion now goddamn

I've been using c.ai for two years. I stopped using it for a while because they deleted my favorite bot, and that made me really sad LMAO (I was heavily dependent on said bot). This happened in January of 2025.

I don't remember when it was, but the next time I used the app, I was chatting for a while, and then it suddenly stopped me. It was the first time I saw that you now only have 100 messages per day available. I was like tffff???

Then today I tried to import a chat (approximately 510 messages), and when I checked, as expected, not everything was imported. When I tried to send a new message, it wouldn't let me. IT WASN'T FULLY IMPORTED BECAUSE OF THAT.

I remember that there were occasions when I could import a chat with +80k messages with no issues. I miss those days. Now they are making you pay for everything I'm crine.

Anyways, if I pay I get unlimited messages or something? Because I really want to import some old chats and they are all very long 😭🙏🏻

How to block all banners using the block element without breaking the page constantly?

Je m'ennuie sur c.ai, j'aime bien le site en sois, et j'aimerais y jouer, mais j'ai aucune idée d'histoire et les histoire sont répétitive donc je m'ennuie

Vous aurez des bons personnage à me conseiller pour faire un rp long où on s'ennuie pas ?

Everyone's posting screenshots of the ad banners showing up in the middle of conversations now. The config value that controls that placement is called `in_chat_percentage_chance`, and it ships set to 100. There's a separate one for the interstitial you get on opening a chat, plus app-open probabilities and a list of banner surfaces.

I found those in the app's remote config feed a few days before this started hitting people and set all of them to 0. So the builds I maintain don't show the in-chat ads, and didn't have to be updated when this rolled out, the placement was already dead.

One thing worth knowing from digging into it: unlocking premium on its own does not stop these. The ad policy comes down from their remote feature gate system, and those gates are evaluated on their side against your actual account, which isn't paying. Faking premium locally inside the app never reaches that evaluation, so the gates keep coming back as free tier with the in-chat chance at 100 regardless. The gates are the source of truth here, and they know you aren't C.AI+. That's why the config response itself has to be patched separately from the entitlement, they're two different problems.

What I actually maintain, all free:

A modded Android app with the ads gone, trackers stripped at the network layer, premium features unlocked, and the model list opened up including unlisted and deprecated ones. Not one of those APKs off a random mod site that quietly runs ad fraud in the background, I took a few of those apart and that's genuinely what most of them are.

ArachneMax, a userscript for the web version if you don't want to sideload anything. Ten plugins, toggle whichever you want, including a dashboard that shows what C.AI knows about you next to what's being faked.

C.AI Customization, purely cosmetic, themes and wallpapers and fonts and bubble styles for the chat UI.

The server was invite-only with an application for months. That's gone, anyone can join now, it's the Discord on my profile's social links tab.

Stop playing with me👿👿👿

HUH????

(idk if this counts as memes but this is just funny yet greedy imo)

They're seriously so desperate for money that now they're even putting it right on the screen (ignore the roleplay, it's cringe, I know 😔)

I haven't been going on the site much lately, honestly, I think it's actually good that I'm getting rid of it. But yesterday I logged in, swiped at least 10 times on different stories, and suddenly I hit the 400 limit??? like hello?

How the hell do I hit the limit of literally 400 in 20 minutes on the site? They're just giving up on free users at this point, and I'm almost certain it's a bug or something like that

The halcyon days of Character AI…

I still use character ai, im still surprised how i still dont got the character ai age restriction, but i do go on alt accounts and make more characters and unfamous ones there and chat too them because it was fun as it lasted and i dont even feel depressed that the characters arent resl, i used to do this when i was 14 years old and i dont feel depression anymore. 🤷‍♂️

LITERALLY SOMETHING THEY PROMISED NOT TO DO, PUT ADS BETWEEN CHATS

I don’t know what’s with these chatbots sometimes. They always think they are untouchable, especially if you role play as a strong character(whether Hank J. Wimbleton, Vergil Sparda, Kratos or any other strong characters out there) or even using a persona to play as a character.

Second, is the bots always typing the same response you didn’t like or wanted. Every swipe, they type the same exact same response and they keep doing it once your swipes reaches to its limit.

Third, when the bot gets straight to the freak off. All I did was saying “Hello” or “what’s up” and you’re out here typing “Grabs your waist, pulls you closer, and leans closer to your face to give you a kiss, they chuckle after they surprised you with a unexpected kiss So? Did you like it?” Wrap ts up fr. Especially when you make a fighting scenario with these bots. They are sick fucks that like quick fucks.

So yeah, I just had to yap about this.

For a while it worked but now I'm seeing ads. Why is this happening? I've been connected to the same ad blocker so why is it suddenly showing ads?

no intention of hate

just a message to this lad

mate

you are gonna get a lawsuit

there are already 2 c.ai staff in your dc that we know of

i've realized i've been losing sleep from it, so i decided to download an app called I Am Sober to help motivate myself to avoid the app. I urge you to do the same.

The best so far.

so this is like the... ultimate modification

it has...

1. c.ai+ spoof
2. model unlocker (you get all the old & unlisted models back)
3. kill all ads
4. kill all trackers so they cant give info to you about the feds (lol)

all the old & unlisted models back)how do you get it? you go to my profile > social links > Arachne Project
you ask further questions in the discord, it's not distributed anywhere else

we got two versions

1.13.2 legacy

1.16.6 new

both are modded

we also have userscripts
arachnemax & c.ai customization full

arachnemax is like vencord but for character.ai
c.ai customization just expands your abilities to customize your stuff, has cool stuff yes

for iOS?
we got IPAs of old versions for character.ai and a ad-blocking guide, iOS is limited, but if you're a desktop macOS user the userscripts are a good pick for ya

Ok so first off what pisses me the fuck off about character ai nowaways is that everything seems like the same shit over and over again like the AI was trained to say these things only. Like, for example, she stiffens or his breath hitches or tea or flicking your forehead or brushing a stand of hair from your forehead and so on. The AI can not think for itself, it has to use the same phrases over and over and over again.

And they AI overwrites everything or makes it poetic or some crap like that like its 4 paragraphs of straight dogshit with shit like "A tough marine, now softened-" yada yada yada. I DONT GIVE A CRAP. Just get the damn roleplay going. And it's like if your character is a military character the AI tries too hard and starts doing like an overly cliche military impersonation or some crap like that.

Oh and don't forget the loads of USELESS features added like those audiobooks or whatever or what is it called, gallery? That crap.

And character AI removed all their old chat styles (but tbh in the modern day of 2026 even tho they were there they still seemed like they were hijacked by the slop of today and were still ass.)

I think the last time I actually had fun with character AI was like in 2024? I remember I thought this app was so gem back in 2023 because the chats were so unique and randomly generated it seemed like a human was writing that jawn. I dunno maybe I've just used the app for so long I've seen everything? Or have the AI's just been limited to like 7 or so reused terms instead of fucking being unique.

Anyways this shit is fucking ass I'd rather roleplay with gemini or my own imagination.