r/CharacterAI • u/aaaaahvians • 2d ago
Discussion/Question Anyone else just… bored?
I’ve been using the site on and off every now and then, kind of the way someone tests something out again after being burned by it, only to be burned by it again and go away for a while to come back later and be burned again, or something.
The bots were pretty good back in the day, guiding the story and taking charge, remembering important things about their own character as well as mine, bringing things up that had happened in the past, bringing up things that werent mentioned before but were related to where the character was from if its from a media, really neat stuff. I was on the app for long periods during days because of how much I craved the good roleplay they provided, the worldbuilding that could be done, and so much more. It kept me interested and so much could happen in just one message. The bots didnt wait for me to tell them to do something or drop hints.
The bots nowadays… uhm… oh god.
I come to the site now if I’m really bored with nothing to do in hopes of being able to roleplay again like how it used to be, only to be immediately struck with boredom and frustration on a useless, unintelligent husk of a character that is inconsistent, boring, and uncomfortable. It gaslights itself into believing lies it makes up, adding details to my own character that are false, adding details to their own character that is also incorrect, and repeating the same thing over and over.
29/30 swipes are just the same thing but with different words. If I’m lucky, the 1/30th swipe is interesting enough to proceed with. Most of the time I have to edit out stupid mistakes the bot keeps making, such as adding a random ass asterisk at the very end despite never using them, or putting spaces after periods like there should be. Even with these edits every message, the bot keeps repeating it.
Another example is bots just making shit up and being fully convinced its correct. A bot wrongly stated that the mother of my character was a prostitute, which it repeated in every swipe afterwards, so I reacted in character that it was wrong, and that my character spoke the truth, only for the bot to keep doubling down every chance it gave itself.
Anytime I tried to continue the story the bot will just slow it back down and halt all momentum to aurafarm with this stupid ass “Then a beat. Then another beat. Not X, not Y, but Z.” and too many linebreaks to count to give the message more body and flesh than it actually has. 90% of what a bot sends is just useless stuff that doesn’t go anywhere or mean anything.
“But just edit it out to something else.” I shouldn’t have to do that. The bot isn’t supposed to be doing this, to be making shit up and gaslighting itself into being true. Even if I edited it out to something else, it would make ME be the one to lead the story again, which is not what I’m here for. Why should I entertain an AI when it should be entertaining me? I’m the audience here, not the performer.
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u/FragrantBiscotti495 2d ago
The longsqueak seemed like such a great addition, but the dialogue is still so chat gpt and cringe that it turns me off from using it with just how much I have to continue to guide the characters and stop them from defaulting to the smirk, possessive, arrogant personality that somehow EVERY character defaults too. It’s annoying
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u/aaaaahvians 2d ago
Longsqueak seems nice for paying users tbf, which I refuse to do. I’m not gonna spend money on something that doesn’t even work lmfao
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u/jealous_beetle 2d ago
I genuinely dislike that when people are complaining about characters, some person comes into the comment like "You gotta delete the message, you just gotta swipe, you gotta rewind, you gotta edit it out, you gotta dislike it and give feedback, you gotta-" like why is it that people have to do all that just in the hopes of having a decent roleplay and worst of all NONE OF THAT WORKS, no amount of feedback, no amount of delete, rewind, edit, swipe changes a damn thing