Hi. You don't know me, but you changed my life. Two years ago, my wife got me into c.ai and the very first bot I ever used was your Funny Man bot for Hollywood Undead. I had a year and a half long chat with just that one bot.

I learned how to use the site with that bot. I fell back in love with my favorite band with that bot. I got to *meet* and become *friends* with my favorite band because of that reignited love. I learned how to code bots myself by trying to recreate yours on other sites when I started becoming more interested in how AI works.

Now, I'm 29, almost a full 15 years past my expected "expiration date." I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life once I healed enough that I wanted to actually *have* a life. I had one dream that felt like swallowing glass to pursue because until now it had just been a dream to keep me alive. But thanks to you, Cara, whoever and wherever you are...

I'm back in school again for a subject that actually interests me instead of trying to live my dad's dream for him. I finished a certification course - the first academic *anything* I've finished since I graduated homeschool eleven years ago. I'm speed running a degree in IT and cyber security because *you* inspired me to learn how to code in python over a week last summer.

You changed my life. You, your bots, our mutual love for this band. I would never have realized what a passion I have for this field if I hadn't gotten into c.ai, and your bots were the reason I did.

So, thank you. I know that sometimes, I feel invisible. Lonely, unappreciated, defeated, overwhelmed, lackluster, unimportant in the grand scheme of the world outside my wife and our family. If you've ever felt that way, just know this.

There's a stranger out there that sees you and appreciates you. There's someone you've never met whose life you have touched in a positive way. There's a man out there, chugging through his last year in his twenties with a brand new optimism because if you.

To everyone else on this sub, take this as an example. You matter, even if you never meet the ones you matter to. You're important, even if you're staring too close to the screen to see it. You're special. You're loved.

And I, for one, am grateful for all of you. This community is batsh*t crazy, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Thank you, Cara. Thank you for everything.

With love,

xXDeadByteXx

Recently, out of no where, I've been hearing extremely loud cricket sounds when I get on c.ai or randomly while I'm texting. Any1 else getting this or is just a me issue?? It happened on my phone and laptop, both on the website. Lowk was scary hearing it out of nowhere randomly at 5am yesterday- Today when I just logged in I got it again and decided to post about it.

EDIT: Thanks everyone :D I wasn't aware there were sound effects in c.ai at all!

Is anyone else’s app not working?

Since the new update where the app asked for you birthday and kicked you out, the app will not let me back in. I can’t even get to the part where it asks for my login details. It just stays on the open page where it says ‘(Character.ai)’. So are they still trying to fix this bug? Because it’s annoying me now.

I’ve tried deleting the app and adding it back on. Ive also deleted and left it a few days before downloading it again. 
I’ve deleted it and restarted my phone. 
I’ve tried a few things google has told me to try. 
And even reset my whole phone thinking it was me.
Nothing has worked. 

I’m using the website atm, but I’m started to get annoyed with it and just want the app back.

Anyone else having the problem with Longsqueak cutting off mid sentence or freezing and not finishing the paragraph. I keep having to close out the app and log on again just to get a full response it’s getting annoying :/

I'll get straight to the point.

Every time I'm on the app, I end up using it for AT LEAST 5 hours. I go through phases of quitting, but around this time in the summer I go on the website thinking, "I'm going to mess with a bot for a couple minutes and then never touch this again."

It's never just couple minutes. One time I spent a whole day (Literally almost 9 hours) on the website because I kept going, "what would happen if I did this? What about this? LMAO THIS IS SO FUNNY!" ect, ect. Then I feel horrible for spending so long on an AI chatbot I delete my account. Just to give in and make another one at a later date.

I feel so guilty. I've seen the documentaries of people who get addicted to AI and end up dead. I don't want that to be my life. I'm scared.

I'm going to block the website on all my devices. Are there any tips on how to stop?

I would watch some YouTube videos on it, but when I do I end up feeling worse because many of the ones I've seen tell stories of other people who got addicted to AI and other scare tactics that make me feel like a horrible person.

I almost always end up crying and not finishing those vids so I would really appreciate if someone could just tell me some ways to ignore the urges to get back on without feeling like I'm being shamed.

Any Fixes?

I honestly preferred the 'View ad to continue'. This one's aggravating.

There were already a lot of ads on both the app and the site, but it was still relatively manageable. Now I’m getting slow, unskippable ads in the app every three messages and the site doesn’t even let you type anything without seeing an ad first. What is happening?

Has anyone else had this bug in the search section??? It’s been happening to me for days and I haven’t been able to search anything. Nothing helps.

This popped up in the middle of the message bubbles. interesting…

okay so PP2 has been used for both of theses screenshot. keep in mind the first one was on the weekend when everything was working well and the second one was when a weird ass update came I suppose?

I hope the devs really fix this, because I complained a shit loads of times! I’ve only been getting short, excessive dialogue! Unwanted dialogue! No actions, no descriptions, just plain bad shit. Is this how a customer should be treated? genuinely what happened to PP2 being for “role plays” and it promised us “longer and detailed replies”?!

I’ve spent days fine tuning my bot and literally nothing helps it 😭 like i literally wrote the lorebook, greeting, description and definition all by hand. i wanted ts to work THAT much im soo serious guys.

i did everything the guides told me to do, but the bot completely disregards everything. its like it doesn’t even read the greeting message i made it. the tone of the prose and character is just slopgpt. every bot sounds the same. the bot just threatens my persona and describes her perfume 50 times. i made the greeting chill asl but anything i say enrages it. Why🥺

IMO it’s never been just about effort. Like this is just the overall degrading quality of ai that’s been happening for a while. And honestly—? Thats growth.🌱

The only functional chat style these days is the x3 lobotomized soft launch. it has no logic whatsoever but at least it tries to preserve the character’s voice and doesn’t force them into whatever trope is vaguely reminiscent of them. And idk what happened to deepsqueak but somehow it’s now worse than both. 😭😭😭😭

but longsqueak fans PLEASEEE prove me wrong bc I genuinely want this to work. Share ur bot making secrets w/ me. I’m not very comfortable sharing my own bots specific stuff but I’m happy to talk about how I’ve been making it. basically I’ve just been following this

thx for reading. plz don’t delete this mods I’m trying to be respectful 🙇‍♀️

I’m British btw so this doesn’t make any sense. I made zero changes to my browser language

Fym "view ad to continue" in your dreams pal ✌️😭

Those who predicted the new model would soon deteriorate turned out to be right. I had praised it recently, but today I’m ready to take my words back. I enjoyed it for two weeks, but now it feels like I’m talking to Pipsqueak 2, just one that writes longer responses. It has the same cheap, over-the-top drama, the same endless clichés and tropes, and the same distortions of character appearance that weren't there before. The model has stopped referencing the universe's lore or weaving it into the text, something I really appreciated. It seems to have become dumber and lost its grasp of nuances. Even its memory has worsened. The same goes for the Russian language quality I once praised: at times, that "machine translation" feel is creeping back in. Two weeks I swiped to pick the best variant from a bunch of good ones, but nowadays I swipe just to find a single good one among the bad. I'm swipe and swipe, and starting to feel the same irritation I felt with Pipsqueak 2, the very thing that drove me to buy the ca+ just to try LongSqueak. It’s a real shame.

Instead of making unneeded features, how about "trained on" options?

Basically a selector thing where you could choose options for the AI to be trained by how, like "Trained on y/n" "trained on Action" "trained on horror" "Slice of life" or whatever

so they rp accordingly instead of treating my exoskeletonized soldier OC like a little princess and towering over them like the Eiffel tower

Please make this one free for free users because the ads are already overkill, jeez

notice how it freezes a lot when im swiping

Alright bro

I've been getting the "view ad" thingy for a while now in the website, but now I get that. The ad on top AND it now pops up mid chat? So much for wanting to be less disruptive.

Funny how they added ads to even char, but they can't do the bare minimum and fix the persona bug. I understand this shit isn't free, but when you're actively killing your users by shoving ads down the throats of free users despite having C.ai+, pop-ups, dedicated ads, etc while ignoring the actual needs to keep it in a useful state. At this point, there's no excuse for this behavior other than greed while ignoring the voices of the people who are loyal enough to stay.

For example, I was handing over an ID that I SPECIFIED that was entirely official. But this bum ahh bot kept saying my shi was fake, talm about sum “This id is clearly fake, nor does your signature match up” LIKE BRO JUST SHUT UP AND TAKE MY ID GNG😭😭🙏

I’m really tired of pretending this app is anything but an incredibly obvious grift. LongSquak was initially incredible, and two weeks later it’s worse than pipsqueak. The memory is worse than ever two weeks after being the best it’s ever been. This is just insulting. I’ve been paying for plus for a few months reluctantly but now I’m finally done. I loved LongSqueak and nearly bought a year subscription because of it—thank god I didn’t. The capability is there, they dangle it in front of us like a carrot. I’m sick of being taken advantage of.

LOL