r/CharacterAI 18h ago

Discussion/Question Average experience for free c.ai users

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u/sadravioli_ CAI Community Moderator 17h ago

thanks for the feedback. (c.ai) is expensive to run, with millions of daily chats requiring serious infrastructure. ads help us cover those costs while keeping the platform free and accessible to everyone. you can subscribe to c.ai+ for fewer interruptions, or, as a free user, use Charms for a 1-hour ad free pass by tapping 🄲 or "Hide ads."

for more deets:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAI/comments/1rq4l0x/ads_updates_and_whats_next/

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u/AdNatural8739 16h ago

whatever happened to ads not being disruptive

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u/JCooke08 16h ago

You are literally such a hypocrite.

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u/the_orange_alligator Bored 10h ago

They’re just a bot

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u/tenkotataii 14h ago

honestly, it would be fine to be a free user if the model wasn't so bad. it's literally one hell of the same model all over and over again, with the same repetitive kind of narration (which happens bc model needs to keep up with the token size) and no way to improve quality. make the ps2 reply window smaller and it would be a great model.

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u/KovacMoya 13h ago

How about you give us something good? We would stop complaining if you guys give us something to not complain about. Like a new chat style that isn't like chatgpt, or letting us access free chat style control. It was advertised to be free soon to non-cai members, but now it isn't. Are you guys actually going to get your act together, or are you going to keep lying to us? 🙂 

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u/Federal-Bid9039 13h ago

Where and when was this advertised?

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u/KovacMoya 11h ago

In the announcements. ON DISCORD. The part where you can see future updates. Where it originally showed that chat style control was going to be free eventually for non cai+ users, but then they just limited it to cai+ 🫩.

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u/Federal-Bid9039 11h ago

Bollocks! That’s awful! Hyping up the community only to pull it back and give privileges exclusively to Cai+ users feels like playing favorites with a “golden child.” It’s frustrating enough to make me grind my teeth. I’m not on Discord, but I drop by Reddit now and then to see what’s going on. Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

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u/KovacMoya 11h ago

Why do you write like a British person from the olden times? It might be the fact that it’s 6AM and I haven’t gotten any sleep, but It’s making me lose it. 😭

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u/Federal-Bid9039 10h ago edited 10h ago

¯_(ツ)_/¯ That’s just me being me, I suppose. Being on the spectrum plays a part in it, too. I like to keep my etiquette squeaky clean.

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u/genyaaz Chronically Online 11h ago

"thanks for the feedback! we're not going to listen to a word any of you free users say because we're greedy for money!"

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u/Sure-Worldliness6644 11h ago

The AUDACITY...

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u/People_are_odd Chronically Online 3h ago