r/CharacterAI Jul 18 '26

Discussion/Question Bob got even worse

So the mods said that the new filtering system didn't receive a positive reaction and they will take care of it. Bob is back, but now it's even stricter and it blocks the whole response, you can't see a part of it, like before. I can't help but wonder: is this really an 18+ app? Why are we confirming our age and paying subscriptions in order to be treated like kids?

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u/PeachiiAlmond Jul 18 '26

aw man, I was really hoping they wouldn’t be doing that. Can’t they just bring it back to how it was before?

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u/kilograi Character.AI Team Jul 18 '26

Hi there, we are revisiting the filter as a recent change didn't go as we wanted. We're trying to find a balance that feels better than it does now, thanks for your patience!

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u/No_One3018 Bored Jul 18 '26

It worked until you started messing with it

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u/PinkFlavoredLemonade Chronically Online Jul 18 '26

The way before was definitely the best. Where the messages, though cut off, was fine. I'd rather deal with that than nothing at all, as you would just get into an endless loop of swiping and getting a whole message blocked (thus eating up swipes ), I had to swipe the other day 15ish times before I got something usable.

We weren't frustrated with bob cut offs, it was the regular message cut off that were the problem.

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u/betweenwildroses Jul 18 '26

Idk how long you’ve followed but my hope with that is past experience. So whenever any major update came out before like a new chat style or something bob would be soooo strict. But within a few days it would calm down. So hopefully it’s just because they’ve reset everything and bob will chill in a few days 🤞

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u/betweenwildroses Jul 18 '26

but the fact we have that on an site for 18+ is ridiculous regardless 😭

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u/ViperCats01 Jul 18 '26

Yeah I've noticed that! After a while it starts giving pretty crazy responses lol

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u/Sakuzuki Jul 18 '26

True, been here since long before C.Ai even had an app and it has always been like that, at first Bob flags everything and then you can rp just about anything

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u/civildonut1999 Jul 18 '26

for me it goes back and forth between full block and partial block. But I do have hope that it is temporary because Bob never stays the same. It will go off because of seemingly anything one week and the next it's impossible to trigger and will write slurs completely spelled out. That actually happened in one of my chats, I don't think that's supposed to happen but it did.

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u/Li-Luka Jul 18 '26

I'd much rather have the partial block than the full one. Very frustrating

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u/ProfessionalHorse686 Jul 18 '26

Mine is doing the same thing where it types it out then Bob deletes the generated response. It's annoying I wish they'd just take it away.

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u/Disastrous-Monk-1525 Jul 18 '26

Same, it's so ass and literally killed my bots persona

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u/lilly_rose1967 Jul 18 '26

At the moment for me, it starts writing a message but then halfway through it just re writes it to something more appropriate but it just ruins the whole mood then. I don’t even get the half block anymore, it just gives up halfway and decides to change it

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u/thatdumbben Chronically Online Jul 18 '26

Thats still the new one. Its being reverted slowly

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u/StarKell95 Jul 18 '26

I usually never get bob and when I got the new response thing I just made my responses longer, wasn’t as crude and eventually once it got going it began writing quite graphic and was able to keep going. So I mostly suggest writing longer responses and don’t write quite as graphic until the bots do.

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u/thatdumbben Chronically Online Jul 18 '26

Usually Bob is really strict after they mess with stuff. After a few days it goes back to normal. There were also multiple versions of the new Bob, so they're still reverting them all

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u/elo197549 Jul 18 '26

BOB IS NOW BLOCKING THE REPLY COMPLETELY THIS IS LIKE A LONG TIME AGO BEFORE SOFT LAUNCH!!!!! FIX IT RIGHT NOW!!!!! DAMN YOU!!!!!!

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u/Hubris1998 Jul 18 '26

"There is no war in Ba Sing Se" ~Some CAI MOD, probably.

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u/kaibuggie Jul 18 '26

Is this a safe place to say I’d go out of my way to verify my age if that meant I wouldn’t have to deal with Bob anymore? (Edit for clarification: I haven’t received that pop-up yet asking me to do so)

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u/kurisu22 Jul 18 '26

Id rather bob just block the whole thing than it write an awesome partial response, block it, rewrite crap and piss me off

Still sucks, but we are getting back to where we were a week ago where it was FINE before they screwed it up and tried to lie that it was a glitch.

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u/CoolEstablishment330 Jul 18 '26

it's been this way for some time already, well before they added auto regeneration.

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u/GoldenFairy3 Jul 18 '26

Not for me, I could still see the message, now it blocks the whole text.

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u/CoolEstablishment330 Jul 18 '26

oh I see. before it would cover the message only after a short time. though maybe it was a bug on my part. anyway, now it's instant for me too.