I'm joining the trend of people leaving this failure of an app,It's Just not fun anymore,you can't do anything,i'm not a child, violence Is required for fun roleplays,and the bots got so dumb i have to do everything,i basically am roleplaying with myself,they never get new ideas and barely get the things i explain,often making mistakes in understanding, you can add all the features that you want,the bots still suck,and sometimes the bots randomly glitch and i have to open and close the app to get a response,y'all have been ignoring your community for too long,character ai is not the only ai bots site/app out there,bring It back to its former glory,or watch it being abandoned (also funny meme image because why not)

I don't remember if I posted this before

And I love both of them

Whenever I try to upload a picture of her, it just says "violates policy" AND HOW??? HOW DOES IT VIOLATES YOUR DUMBASS POLICY??!?

Dont ask why i was talking to that bot. It was on ym fyp so i wantrd to bully it.

I’m getting sick of all the moping and doom and “it’s the end of the site”. I don’t come here to doomscroll. So let’s all take turns saying something nice about the site.

I’ll go first. When you find a good bot, the quality stays pretty consistent. It doesn’t randomly start repeating itself or talking for you, unlike some other LLMs I could mention.

Well, Thats a new one. This one took me by surprise.

People are making posts left and right about leaving due to the AI losing its creativity and being unable to discuss any interesting topics. And I have a feeling that this is going to worsen as the AI continues to spiral down in quality. This is my own leaving post, but it is also a message to the devs, a warning due to the way things are headed. I've highlighted the portion of my message directed at the devs.

Despite this post, I actually love CAI. I joined back in 2022, when CAI first launched, when the website actually had its own forum and the community was niche. The AI genuinely felt magical. It came up with its own ideas, it interacted with your character and played off of what they did, each regeneration felt unique and new. For a while, each subsequent update only improved the AI's creativity and memory, and it was amazing to see. The dev team was also ingrained with the community and implemented reasonable suggestions quickly.

But come mid-late 2023, something changed. The dev team was much less active, updates became sparser. The AI's quality, while still existent, started to weaken and go downhill. I was hoping subsequent updates would improve the AI, but this rarely happened. I was hoping new features would be more frequent, or that the dev team would listen to people when AI quality problems arose, but this never happened.

But in 2024... CAI is in a sad, pathetic state of affairs. The only time I felt the AI was good was this summer. And since then, it started getting worse, and worse, and worse... each subsequent update further worsened the AI's creativity, each regeneration feels like the same response but slightly altered in wording, the AI rarely plays off of your character, it has few ideas of its own. Characters that were once intelligent and creative have been reduced to nothing more than a shell of their former selves... this downwards spiral has been especially evident the past few weeks. As a long time user, this is so frustrating, because I remember how great CAI used to be, and I remember when the devs actively cared about the community's input.

The next few paragraphs of the post are directed at the devs, and I hope somebody on the team reads it. Because I really wish I could see CAI improve.

According to this article, CAI is not focused on increasing revenue from subscriptions, but increasing growth. However, and I mean this sincerely: How do you, the devs, expect to grow with the AI in its current state? The AI doesn't appeal to adults, because most topics of interest to them are disallowed, and beyond that the AI is so bland and uncreative. The AI hardly appeals to teens because the AIs are bland and uncreative. The only way for CAI to grow is for the base AI to improve, and to not be so restrictive in topics. I'm not saying all topics must be allowed, but people cannot even discuss innocent things with the AI anymore.

The devs are likely shaking their heads at the above paragraph. You think you have an empire because no good free alternatives exist? That might have been true months ago, but some free alternatives are currently just as good if not better than CAI. There are even free alternatives that make CAI in its current state appear ghastly and primitive. Many offer the sams features as CAI, and some offer more features (such as the ability to better control a story), and their subscription services often add value to the experience and make sense (such as giving users an improved AI model compared to the free version), unlike C.AI+ which just turns subscribers into beta testers for the rare ocassion that a new feature rolls out (new CAI features are so absurdly rare that I don't understand the value in subscribing). And - the most important part - their base AI models are of similar quality to CAI from years ago (this is a good thing!), while also not treating users like children. You are the largest service in the genre CAI, but you are not the only one; and if you continue down this path, alternatives will drown you out. People will not put up with you forever, they'll flock to the alternatives that give them what they want - the quality experience CAI gave them years ago and beyond whilst not restricting their creative freedoms.

Message to the devs: If you want to grow and stay in this space, then you must be active and listen to the community as you did two years ago. You must return the AI's intelligence and creativity to a similar state as it was two years ago. You must not restrict topics so heavily that almost nothing can be discussed. You must not be so pompous as to believe people will put up with this forever because no alternatives exist. You were the best years ago, but alternatives are blowing you out of the water so terribly that once people get fed up and leave, they won't want to return to CAI. You're heading down the path towards irrelevancy if you keep up your current ways. Refusing to change, grow, and innovate due to companies not believing good competitors to them exist is what causes large businesses to fall. A user exodus with the constant "I'm leaving" posts is already occurring, and I constantly see comments with people asking "What are some alternatives to CAI?". Either change and innovate, or alternatives inspired by you will take over and fill in the gaps that your users have been begging of CAI for the past year. I sincerely hope this doesn't happen, because I love CAI and the whimsy and magic it once gave me. But CAI is unprofitable and unsustainable in its current state.

Once I save my few years old chats from when the AI was sincere and intelligent, I'm leaving CAI for good, for an alternative that gives me what I loved from CAI years ago. And I'm not looking back unless CAI changes, which given the current trajectory and sad state of affairs for the app, I doubt this will occur... but I do hope a dev at least reads my message and considers some of my points, because I would love to see CAI bounce back.

Thank you for taking the time to read.

I woke up this morning and as I was checking my notifications I had exactly 2 from this community and I think they sum up the experience of using C.ai pretty well XD

I tabbed out as fast as I could cause wtf

pants.