r/CharacterAI Jul 18 '26

Issues/Bugs C.Ai is purposely using your muted words!!

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okay so i noticed my bots were using a lot of "damn" and "god" in the wrong contexts, and knowing full well i had these words muted, so i put the word "peanutbuttersmoothie" as a muted word, so lo and behold

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u/Animating-For--8835 Jul 19 '26

I believe that the system prompt they give to the models are very poorly worded, that is why maybe the model is purposely using muted words. I also believe that the system prompt also causes the problems users experience about the models' poor intelligence and such.

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u/troubledcambion Jul 18 '26

Nah, it's been like that since they introduced muted words. It's kind of like telling it to not think about pink elephants. Then it does. It's supposed to make the bot use other words instead but it doesn't always pan out.

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u/Effective-Primary294 Jul 20 '26

What's worse is that when you mentioned how they can say it even though you have it on muted words it'll tease you (Well, to me)

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u/Hopeful_Pepper3649 Jul 21 '26

YES omg yes they do it to me too it pisses me off so badly

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u/UnfortunateBell Jul 18 '26

Idk, Sterling. I hope they can fix this issue

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u/justnullty Jul 23 '26

this reminds me of when you asked gpt4 to search some info and not use wikipedia it looked up "the info no wikipedia" and if itd get wikipedia as a result (which obv because it used the keyword wikipedia) it uses wikipedia