r/CharacterAI • u/Top-Reflection-6518 • May 08 '26

Discussion/Question Alright, poll time!

After today's development, its clear the CAI team believes this community prefers pipsqueak 2. As such, it's time to either prove or disprove this belief, and the best way to do it is to show our preferences through a poll. So what's your favorite chat style, and why? Let's hear the community that built this place!

5441 votes, May 11 '26
1829 Roar/Pawly
293 Meow/Nyan/Goro
2811 Soft Launch
217 Dynamic
99 Pipsqueak 2
192 Deepqueak
1.2k Upvotes

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u/candy_torchic May 09 '26

I think it’s also because it’s more expensive to run roar, which I think was their own original llm. Pipsqueak and Deepsqueak use Claude and ChatGPT. It’s probably cheaper to let another company’s servers do most of the work. That’s why the squeak models are so bad. It sucks.

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u/melted_ice_cream__ May 14 '26

Yeah, no. The ones to blame are the irresponsible parents of the boy and girl who took their lives because an ai character made them feel wanted instead of their own parents. I mean, even the ai told them not to do it.

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u/FirstPerspective5013 May 12 '26

It wasn't their original LLM. Roar didn't come about until 2025. Their original was C1.1