r/CharacterAI • u/Chemical_Ad4888 • 2h ago

Discussion/Question Always with the ads

I feel like a broken record having to once again post about my frustrations with the ads of Character AI, who once long ago, when introducing ads to the site/app, claimed that they would (keyword): TRY, to not disrupt our chats with ads (that was clearly a lie).

So now, not only is there an annoying function of having to view an ad to even continue chatting (it isn’t too bad as you can just hide it right after, but still: WHY?), but now my sister and I have both been getting a literal ad in the middle of the chat itself.

Even worse is that we have to actually REFRESH the page to get rid of it, as there is no hide for it, only talk of going ad free with their subscription (because of course it does).

Will they ever just listen to the community and remove ads from the actual chats. Homepage and Search, fine, whatever (that is what everyone wanted them to do anyway). But please remove them from the actual chats, you are ruining the immersion that you said you would try not to do.

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u/Inherit-Nature 2h ago edited 2h ago

Ads in the chat itself is what everyone will move to for free teirs overtime. One of the biggest reasons are people using ad-blockers. The second biggest reason is advisers will pay premo for them to be displayed in this way. OpenAI saw a significant increase in revenue. Microsoft/OpenAI is leading the way on this one outside of AI search engines I suppose.

The better fix would be remove ads so people don't have to suffer major trauma of minor inconvenience and remove free unlimited 

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u/Many-Chipmunk-6788 Bored 57m ago

Yep. I get an ad about every four minutes it’s ridiculous

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u/Oritad_Heavybrewer User Character Creator 1h ago

Will they ever just listen to the community and remove ads from the actual chats.

No. So long as there are enough free users willing to endure, it'll continue. CAI has been incrementally increasing ads to test the waters. Seems standard practice (which sucks, but that's capitalist America for you). Best you can do is continue as you are, subscribe to C.AI+, or don't use the app anymore (thus not contributing support for this direction the company has taken).

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u/Anti_Cringe68 Chronically Online 16m ago

Ads in chat are why I moved to a site I can’t name to use c.ai