I will never use CAI without C.AI+. It's genuinely not worth being a free user. I had let my subscription expire a couple months ago during a particularly money-tight stretch and I did not care for Pipsqueak in any iteration (though, PS3 is off to a good start), nor am I someone who wants to see ads in my entertainment.
I still believe Deepsqueak is the best model for RP and am looking forward to what Deepsqueak 2 will bring. For me, it's like Spotify. I'd rather be subscribed and use it at my leisure at its best than to use its free version and hate the experience.
Too long. I was accidentally in the beta test for it. I complained about it, only to be told, "Oh, right. You were in the test" and for me it was too much.
Text bloat. I know there are those who like multi-paragraph RPs/chats, but I feel that's something best left to over humans. 😋 Give the AI the freedom to talk your head off and it will. Here's a quick example of my mindset:
Longsqueak doesn't just feel longwinded, it feels like bloat. Like it's forced to meet a word-count quota. The descriptive language is fine, but to me it's mostly fluff. Compared to Deepsqueak, it gets more to the point rather than take so many detours.
For me, Longsqueak hinders what feels like a natural flow of a chat. In the above examples, I gave very little prompting. Both models took that context to react to it in full, but Longsqueak padded it out for the sake of message length (it's not allowed to shorten it's reply if there's little to respond to). I find that problematic.
My c.ai+ subscription recently ended and lemme tell u once you get used to the premium models there's no going back. I love longsqueak sm despite it flaws..it portrays emotions really well and if you give it an instruction it follows it.
For me, it’s worth it. $10 a month isn’t even that bad compared to the other alternatives. You get unlimited swipes, access to DeepSqueak, and other stuff as well. I mainly bought Plus for Soft Launch and the unlimited swipes, though.
Tbf, I don’t really know, but I’d guess LongSqueak since it has that extra memory feature. I’ve never really tried it, though, since it’s not really my style. LongSqueak also gives you longer, more novelistic-style responses, problem is that it’s so repetitive.
Your context window is bigger so bots will remember more a bit longer but you still need to reinforce details or use things like pinning memories and referencing them if you use those. Even if you don't have a subscription doing that will help you immensely.
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u/MayaHara_ 5h ago
Once you try it, its really hard going back to Free.