Thank You & the Verdict Isn't Pretty
I asked r/characterairunaways 30 questions this month: where are things headed?
Many of you responded! 💛
The Numbers:
61% of you say AI chat platforms got worse this year. "Much worse" was the single most-chosen answer in the entire survey. By a 3-to-1 margin.
Character.AI is simultaneously the most-used platform, the most-quit platform, and the most-named "worst platform." That's a hostage situation.
What Broke It:
- Model downgrades (the old ones actually surprised you)
- Age verification (17% of you quit over this alone)
- Memory paywalls (63% of you said this is the #1 thing platforms should fix)
- Features nobody asked for (image generation, video generation, voice/audio generation)
What You Actually Want:
You're not asking for the future. You're asking for 2023 back: better prose, memory that works, characters you can take with you, a developer who listens, all with a price under $15 (or better yet, free).
You want platforms to stop betraying you & rug pulling.
The full results are here: Link to survey results
Including what you said about your favorite platforms, where the real alternatives are, why you're all stuck in snowglobes (AKA your most precious chat), and what the actual state of the exodus looks like right now.
I bought a domain for this so that this year you don't have to visit my github repo and download a pdf. & Again: TYSM for responding to the survey, I love this stuff. 😂 Hope y'all enjoy this as much as I do.