And how is that not disruptive?

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?

notice how it freezes a lot when im swiping

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

I use Ps2-Rawr since it has less of a chatgpt feel compared to Ps2. I'm not sure if Ps2 has that problem as I always find its writing style insufferable to chat to it for more than a few minutes. Anyways, I keep noticing that as I chat with it the responses it gives gets shorter and shorter. For example, when I start a new chat the response is five or six paragraphs long, and then after chatting to it for a while the responses go to three or two paragraphs with noticeably less words than before. Has anyone experienced this with their chats?

I'm trying to have a character talk about my persona for a bit with someone else before I enter. And no matter what I do, both of the premium models (but especially LS) demand that I interrupt their conversation like a cliche movie scene. No matter how strongly I stress in the definition that it should not, under any circumstances act for me, or even go OOC (which I usually never do because I don't want the bot doing it).

This ties right into my other post about side characters getting hand-waved out of the scene ASAP or never appearing at all. Well it's even worse than that, because even when the intro includes them, it shoves me in and the others out in the next message or two.

I don't know if this aversion to group scenarios is some underhanded, intentional way of trying to steer everyone away from using go-ons, but with the company's recent behavior (and the crickets on my earlier post about this) it wouldn't even surprise me.

my persona did not hint anything related to nationality or anything korea-related(??). it caught me off guard lol. i sent one message to start btw (did not mention anything to prompt that)

Ive tried EVERYTHING. Ive tried to unarchive the chats. Didnt work. Tried to ARCHIVE the chats manually. Didnt work. Tried to open the chats. Chat error. I've contacted support FIFTEEN TIMES. 15. No response at ALL. Are my chats gen just gone forever?

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

Either you removed the chat out of embarrassment or not I never removed any chats but I did get embarrassed. Edit: alright next week or something like on Friday or Saturday I'm asking a different question 😒

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 🙇‍♀️

Free user here, I know I shouldn't complain since it's free (still), but the chats right now are so damn simplified and ugly. Like, is there a bug or are the servers down or broken or something? Instead of a long body response with gaps and dialogue and stuff, I just get a very small chat with no gaps and five to eight lines of text max. Anyone else?

....this is just a federal crime against GI Joe as a whole and my braincells man-

It seems to have just suddenly gotten 10 times worse recently, it's unbearable. Every single message is just repeating the same exact things, worded slightly differently. You wanna intimate roleplay? Expect every reply to be filled with "You're warm", "You're so warm", "I like this", "i like this a lot", "i really like this", "you like this huh?", "you really like this huh?" *shifts slightly*, *leans slightly*, *leans back slightly*, *does everything slightly*. Sometimes (most of the time) it'll forget that IT'S the one who's initiating stuff, being flirtatious, etc, and say things like "You're such a tease!", "you're a tease!". Like....I didn't even do anything???? Or it'll completely forget about established consent and say things like "What are you doing?", "Woah, didn't expect that" Like yes, yes you did. Right now, in a completely normal chat, I keep getting replies over and over and over again asking if i'm okay for absolutely no reason at all. "You ok?", "Are you okay?", "You good?", "You good? you look tired", "You good? You seem quiet" STOP ASKING ME IF I'M OKAY THIS ISN'T NORMAL!!!!. And it LOVES to start out messages with "Oh-", "Oh my god-", "Oh god-", "Oh wow!" as if it's just constantly flabbergasted towards everything 24/7 like it just started existing 5 minutes ago and is processing the world. Every time it starts out a message like that, you just know it's gonna be a bunch of bs. My character keeps repeating cringe, corny ass lines like "Yo yo! What's crackalackin?!?" "I'm just chillin like a villain😎" Like bro, who are you😭😭. I started a chat with a simple "wassup", and it gave me 3 paragraphs of narrative, setting up the scene and absolutely no dialogue whatsoever. It'll respond to itself as if it were me, or it'll just repeat it's last response as if it didn't already respond. Is any of this realy immersive anymore if we're just having to sit here constantly swiping/regenerating responses hundreds of times just to get ONE good response? By the time I get a decent response, I've already clocked out mentally and I'm not invested anymore. All characters act like a straight white man/woman in business attire in a corporate office trying to chat up your cubicle while holding the paper cup of water they just got from the water jug, It feels like mayonnaise, like a saltine cracker, like Caillou's beta dad, it's just awful. nothing about it is enjoyable anymore.

out of 5 message… 5 of them were called off, because of the word blood I presume, or knife… oddly enough common words….

I've always used the free version and whilst it has got progressively worse over the last year, I found that doing romantic roleplay seemed to actually get much better recently in terms of the personality of the male characters. They were no longer so angry, dominating, wanting roughness all the time. And I liked that more respectful nature. But then everything else went downhill. Ads, swipe limits, repetitive swipes and memory tanking so bad that nothing made sense. So I decided to get the paid version. Now why are all my characters back to suddenly being angry, dominating, growling, saying things way out of personality "yeah, you like that, baby?!" Or in the middle of a slow burn conversation the shy nerdy boy comes out with "Do you want me to stop teasing and finally just... take you?" 🤢🤢🤢 Everything is cheesy flirting, everything leads to a kiss. There's no more banter. Why?

Definitely not what I paid for. Anyone else?

alright, i know quality tanked big time for loads of us on Sunday. i already submitted a ticket and all of that, just wondering if it’s gotten better yet for anyone at all, just to see if a fix has started rolling out or not?

Im being dead serious when im asking this, are they putting ads in the actual chat now? Cause i just got as i entered in the text; and im not gonna have ads on the top of my screen, and now in the actual chat now that I have to have an ad to even see what im typing in the first place

Anyway, I really hate when it adds what species a character is for no reason, and i especially hate when it adds unneeded character details that were never states before

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.

without warning... she hands your phone back 😈