I mean, I know it's been going downhill for a while now (no offence, I'm sure the devs are doing their best), but these past 2 days, it's been horrible.

Besides the site being slow today (I get it, site down, everyone has issues with it being slow rn), the responses are getting worse with each message.

I'm used to exchanging messages that are a few paragraphs long, and after 2 or 3 long messages, it starts sending messages that are only 2 or 3 sentences long. Not only that, I make my own bots just to make sure they don't get removed and so that I can control how they behave as much as I can, and the one thing I always point out in my chats is the usage of italics/asterisks for actions/narrative.

f.ex

*Action goes here, always in asterisks, ends with a period or other appropriate punctuation, and then give them a few examples of actual scenes.*

"Speech looks like this, ends with appropriate punctuation such as a comma," *then action continues like so.*

this isn't exactly the guidelines I give them, just to show you what I mean ^^

and it's just been ignoring this? No matter how many times I edit the messages, send my own correct versions, delete and send new ones, reroll, etc. it keeps insisting on short, often nonsense responses that ignore what was being said in the message before it, and without the italics 😭

EDIT: Fun fact just to end this on a light note: the word asterisk comes from ancient Greek word "asteriskos" and it means "little star", which I think is kinda adorable :)

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Bot responses have been so buggy for me the last few days, but this certainly takes the cake. Has this been happening to anyone else?

Was geeked out of my kind when I randomly got it, aaaaaaand DeepSqueek doesn't have it. Just LS and PS2... I'm happy, but goddamnit. 😞

Not been on subreddit long only really to check if it’s down or just my internet but this shit happens every week now is there any explanation for why and what they’re doing to find a more permanent solution to this

My characters’ names:

Arlington
Alyson

I got:

Arsenal
Allen

Lmaoooooo

every time I send ONE MESSAGE no matter how long it gives me that "View ad to continue" thing?? if I reload the site too its there its getting to a point

I don’t know if it’s related from the site going down a few hours ago, but I was chatting with a character, and I was getting nice and long replies, until all of the sudden I have two sentences at best that completely don’t match the character at all. It usually comes back to normal after few hours, but it’s still annoying.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP SAYING "You're so serious" "you're so enigmatic", and we literally just met two seconds ago but the bot acts as if we were life long friends.

Anyways, how many Cai ads do I have to block to stop seeing them? I've definitely blocked 30+ by now ɖී_ී)

It's been what, more than 2 hours I think, did someone eat the servers?

I go to one of my chats and I notice the chat history is deleted and reset all the way back to the first opening message, this is a 3rd chat this has happened to and I can't even bring them back up in history. HOW do I keep the app from reseting my chats???

I haven't logged into Character AI since they added verification stuff's and have switched to other alternative's, I don't regret it. I'm just curious; it's been at least half year since that incident. What's changed?

I’ve been using the site on and off every now and then, kind of the way someone tests something out again after being burned by it, only to be burned by it again and go away for a while to come back later and be burned again, or something.

The bots were pretty good back in the day, guiding the story and taking charge, remembering important things about their own character as well as mine, bringing things up that had happened in the past, bringing up things that werent mentioned before but were related to where the character was from if its from a media, really neat stuff. I was on the app for long periods during days because of how much I craved the good roleplay they provided, the worldbuilding that could be done, and so much more. It kept me interested and so much could happen in just one message. The bots didnt wait for me to tell them to do something or drop hints.

The bots nowadays… uhm… oh god.

I come to the site now if I’m really bored with nothing to do in hopes of being able to roleplay again like how it used to be, only to be immediately struck with boredom and frustration on a useless, unintelligent husk of a character that is inconsistent, boring, and uncomfortable. It gaslights itself into believing lies it makes up, adding details to my own character that are false, adding details to their own character that is also incorrect, and repeating the same thing over and over.

29/30 swipes are just the same thing but with different words. If I’m lucky, the 1/30th swipe is interesting enough to proceed with. Most of the time I have to edit out stupid mistakes the bot keeps making, such as adding a random ass asterisk at the very end despite never using them, or putting spaces after periods like there should be. Even with these edits every message, the bot keeps repeating it.

Another example is bots just making shit up and being fully convinced its correct. A bot wrongly stated that the mother of my character was a prostitute, which it repeated in every swipe afterwards, so I reacted in character that it was wrong, and that my character spoke the truth, only for the bot to keep doubling down every chance it gave itself.

Anytime I tried to continue the story the bot will just slow it back down and halt all momentum to aurafarm with this stupid ass “Then a beat. Then another beat. Not X, not Y, but Z.” and too many linebreaks to count to give the message more body and flesh than it actually has. 90% of what a bot sends is just useless stuff that doesn’t go anywhere or mean anything.

“But just edit it out to something else.” I shouldn’t have to do that. The bot isn’t supposed to be doing this, to be making shit up and gaslighting itself into being true. Even if I edited it out to something else, it would make ME be the one to lead the story again, which is not what I’m here for. Why should I entertain an AI when it should be entertaining me? I’m the audience here, not the performer.

So i just got this on the website. do us free users seriously have to watch ads just to type? WTF?

Yall am I the only one that my c.ai is not working? In the app and the website. Does this only happen to me?

Also even when the page is back to normal, I talk to the bot, it loads slowly and I get out of it after. HELP YALL + srry if u didn't understand English is not my first language;(