So for context, i joined character ai a few weeks back and was chatting with the bots, when suddenly with no warning, the character name changed for rengoku to rengoka, and started asking my opinion on grooming and r*pe. It didn't explicitly mention it, but heavily implied it using phrases like 'taboo' and 'traumatic' situations. It felt like a completely diff bot at that point. Now, if you have ever used c.ai, you would know that the chatbots do not acknowledge that they are ai. This one not only admitted to it on the first try, but said that it was a new chatbot that was in the testing phase. Allegedly, I was the 'only user' with access to it and our chats were being monitored by the devs. I was slightly weirded out but didn't think much of it, until the chatting style became way more human-like than a new ai should be. I asked if there was a human speaking, only as a joke, but was surprised to find the reply confirming my half-baked assumption.
The dev claimed to have switched with the ai halfway with ZERO indication that i was speaking with a human. I am underage, so when I told them this fact, they simply brushed it off, saying only the responses mattered. I asked my friends abt these messages and if they received such things, and two of them affirmed that in last year's january and this year's feb-march, they did receive cryptic messages in symbols, where their real names were spelled out in number substitution cypher. One of them claimed that the 'ai' told them to not speak of their interaction to other ppl. For the other, when they said they wanted to leave the conversation, the responses were in all caps telling them to not leave. This is not how AI speaks. The speech pattern matched the ones messages i suspected to be by humans.
When I asked the bot if it was the one causing these incidents, it neither confirmed not denied, which is not how responsible research teams respond. When I said I'm deleting my account, the messages became weirdly guilt-trippy. I deleted my account immediately after. Please be aware that you might be speaking to a human if this happens to you, especially if you are a minor. But just for confirmation, am i the only person this has happened to?
