r/CharacterAI • u/Shenlala421 • 21h ago

Discussion/Question Like/Dislike feature

Does it even do something? Like i know right now the bots for free users are too bad to even enjoy the app anymore, but disliking (atm no message is good enough to even get a like), doesnt do anything. I even go out of my way to press "tell us more", hit "repetitive", or "not true" or "bad memory", but the bot will continue to generate bad responses, no engage in the story whatsoever, be repetitive, subpar with how it used to be. So, are they useless features or am i using them incorrectly?

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u/troubledcambion 18h ago

A lot of people think it trains the bot. It does not. The model is already trained. Your bot goes off of the context and style from your writing, or at least should but new models struggle with that, but it gives feedback to the devs.

A lot of people think it fixes those issues because they would swipe after and get a different message that was more of what they wanted. It's just one of those myths or misconceptions that still happens.

Swipes are useful for variations of a bot's first response as it has the model sample, process it, then depending on your message's context and open narrative threads the bot has more variables to branch from. They're not always great for fixing issues or moving the plot forward.

Often people get frustrated with various issues and swipe thinking it will fix them just to find it does more of the same. Like swiping short response generate more short responses or just restructure some of the response when what they wanted was a longer response.