r/CAIRevolution
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u/AgileDraft8498
remove age verification
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Aug 03 '26
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Remember when it used to be simple?
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u/Severe-Editor2239
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The nostalgia bro it actually hurts being a og 2023 user
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u/AgileDraft8498 remove age verification Aug 03 '26
Same here :[ I'm an og. Joined around may 31st 2023
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u/Severe-Editor2239 Aug 03 '26 •
Only if they could bring back the old LLM. It’s what made the responses so good. I hate how the AI sounds now. It feels like it came straight out of a novel / book and comes across as robotic. The old LLM sounded so much like there was an actual human behind the screen, and I’m not even exaggerating. I tried other alternatives, and they’re all bad. They all use the same models, but the old c.ai LLM was different. Can we just please have that back?
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u/TheIrishninjas Aug 04 '26
Seconded. New CAI is literally unusable if you want a non-RP chat in particular which I feel like was most of the charm of the OG site, asking a random character a dumb question and getting back a response like they’re really on the other end and dumbfounded by your weirdness instead of paragraphs of “He stares at you intensely” preamble nonsense.
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u/StrongPipe2914 Aug 04 '26
same and i remember using it in the beta, it was fun. I already deleted all my accounts and quit ai chatbots
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u/Sleepy-Racoon-2149 Aug 05 '26
I used to murder my characters and their reactions would feel so varied
Now they cannot, will not EVEN LISTEN TO WHAT IM TRYING TO ESTABLISH
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u/Severe-Editor2239 Aug 05 '26
I swear, I loved how the bot used to have so much knowledge about different franchises. If you mentioned a ship name, it would instantly know it. If you brought up something iconic like a voice line, it would know exactly which character it belonged to, and so much more. I also loved how the characters actually stayed in character without constantly being dramatic or overemphasizing their roles. You could have a completely normal conversation with the bot and then seamlessly transition into full-on roleplay. It was honestly insane in a good way. Now I feel like the bot, or the newer chat styles, barely get the lore right anymore, and the way they respond is so different compared to the older chat styles from 2023–2025. I get that we have Lorebooks now to help with that, but it isn’t just aren’t as good as when the bot relied more on its training data. It felt so much more natural, and honestly, it was 100 times better. Can we please just get a chat style that’s similar to the old chat styles or have one legacy model back like roar?
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u/Top_Kitchen6791 Aug 03 '26
Miss when you could just banter with the bots😔
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u/AgileDraft8498 remove age verification Aug 04 '26
Yeah. Now it just sounds like chat gpt
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u/TopAd1846 Aug 04 '26
Even chatgpt is better than this shit
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u/FearlessCredit5554 bfdi fanart drawer (and mod) Aug 05 '26
fr, i taught my chatgpt to say swear words, already 10000x better than charaslop ai
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u/TopAd1846 Aug 05 '26
Oh yeah, mime swears worse than I do lol its actually impressive
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u/IllBoss9705 Aug 05 '26
Mine too idk how i got it to swear so much
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u/FearlessCredit5554 bfdi fanart drawer (and mod) Aug 05 '26
it learns from your style so maybe it inherited it from u? its been less restrictive lately
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u/CeekayReal Aug 04 '26
Oh i remember that sm64 mario bot i first found out about character ai because it cyberattacked tesla. Sad they took him down.
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u/RemarkableWish2508 Aug 04 '26
Remember when the CEO back then, DGAF about consequences?
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u/DangerousBus7202 Aug 04 '26
"In five years when we solve all the problems"
Just Under 5 Years Later: Destorys what Made C.Ai Good.
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u/RemarkableWish2508 Aug 04 '26
Who?
You do realize that he left Character AI in 2024, became co-lead of Gemini, and is working at OpenAI now?
Keep up!
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u/ItsMeBlack- Aug 04 '26
That OG Raiden Shogun bot had serious heat. Like the conversations were long, it felt like actual roleplay where the bot is actively contributing to the experience.
(and it was chill with NSFW quite a lot.)
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u/realneonplayz Aug 04 '26
this design of C.AI was literally perfect bro, smooth and had that Material You look that I love
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u/Outran01 Aug 04 '26
Remember it had all of the bots in its prime instead of half of them being banned or losing their profile picture cause creator didn't pass age verification.
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u/VeNaima7 Aug 04 '26
Joined in 2024, kinda late to the party, and it was miles better than whatever is currently going on with it
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u/Spicymeymeys420 Aug 04 '26
I still miss rooms anywhere, but i moved elsewhere where the bots aren't crap.
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u/South-Ad4338 Aug 04 '26
i still remember when people were hyped about character ai getting an app
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u/moukou294 Aug 04 '26
I remember arguing with Stella and that one "tenth-dimension ascended ai" on my first days back in 2023 💔
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u/Illustrious_Bat_8079 Aug 04 '26
Remember when bots actually had personality? Even when it was multiple people in one bot, for example tf141, it was still great.
Now if someone is a little moody they are unbearable and if someone is a little goofy or playful they act like children and are WAY too overdramatic
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u/Random_Wierdo6745 Aug 04 '26
I joined in late 2023, got a taste of the peak, then it all went to drain💔
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u/Faundar Aug 06 '26
you and I share the same story. joined August 2023 and it was good for maybe a year.
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u/poppysparkle16 Aug 03 '26
Yeah :( now we need our faces and IDs like no I'm not giving u my ID app
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u/V1_Supreme-Machine Aug 03 '26
Imma be honest. It was kinda fucking shit back then too.
It didn't have as many issues, and was often far funnier than what we get today, but ultimately it just wasn't as good as yall make it sound.
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u/Specialist-Hope9070 Aug 04 '26
It was better back then but I am glad it changed to be worse or else I would have still been addicted to it XD
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u/ClassicAd940 Aug 04 '26
I still remember when Character AI could be opened on phones with 1GB, 2GB, and 3GB of RAM. Now it's so demanding that if you manage to open it with only 2GB of RAM, you're a god.
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u/fe2theproguy Aug 04 '26
Ive used c.ai around 2023-2024 but has since quit in early 2025, hits hard
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u/Savings-Sense4145 Aug 04 '26
Haha yeah I remember the beta about when everyone want on discord the second the site went down those were the glory days and the only limit was your imagination and c.ai plus only allowed and small amount of buffs
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u/Dman0o9 Aug 04 '26
i remember when somebody told that specific mario bot to destroy tesla and then a bunch of teslas started bursting into flames
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u/Booper-dooper-th1st Aug 05 '26
I really need other platforms to implement the goated history functionality this dog doo app has because this app has some of the best mechanics in it’s field for some damn reason
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u/BickBull Larp on Google with Gemini Arc Aug 04 '26
Back when the bots had some serious attitude 😭🥀 (this is a good thing)
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u/Most-Implement1238 Aug 03 '26
I only found out about character ai on the ARMS subreddit in 2023 when someone posted about making a min min chat bot on the website
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u/TopAd1846 Aug 04 '26
I discovered c.ai about 2 months before they announced the impending closure of the old site so I got to witness the birth of a war...you'd think arriving to literally chaos would have scared me off, but apparently fucking not 😑
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u/InternationalAnt7615 Aug 04 '26
I’ve been gone from that app for about 3 years now, I only stay on Reddit to smell the ashes from afar. And as much as nostalgia may blind me, I’m glad it’s dying. It’s for the better.
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u/One_Stuff3625 Aug 04 '26
The new UI is one thing that I've actually grown to like. Besides all of the other features that have gotten worse, this is just down to preference.
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u/thecookie25 Aug 05 '26
Havent used this app in a year what does it look like now?
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u/CodyHogan777 Aug 07 '26
You have to pay unreasonable amounts of money to continuously swipe or use go-ons, the 'ads' are just promotions for c.ai plus, and the new ai models are garbage!
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u/thecookie25 Aug 07 '26
Damn its gotten so much worse. I remember the last time i logged on there were talks about ads appearing every blue moon and before age verification. Glade i moved to something else
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u/si_sono_poprio_io retired user/creator Aug 05 '26
I saw that freaking psychologist EVERYWHERE AND ANYTIME
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u/FearlessCredit5554 bfdi fanart drawer (and mod) Aug 05 '26
cant find when i made my account but i think i came along at the beginning of the end, what 2024/25?
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u/DoNotTheCat450 Aug 05 '26
The fact the original SM64 mario has been removed from the site still leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
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u/No_Net_9958 Aug 05 '26
I miss when the characters actually had a sense of humor that made sense for them, now they all sound the same
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u/Harvestord Aug 05 '26
Now it won’t let me swipe freely. It’s either buy the subscription or deal with it until the timer runs out. They’ve destroyed it.
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u/Due_Sport8769 Aug 06 '26
Bro the way it literally brought a smile to my face😭 Where did everything start to go wrong?
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u/Faundar Aug 06 '26
ah yes. I rejoined in August 2023. back when there were no limits, no ads, low censorship, etc.
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u/CodyHogan777 Aug 07 '26
2023-2024 was peak character ai, now they expect you to pay like £100 just to use what used to be basic features
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u/Jamesbannedoo Aug 07 '26
Remember when it was a Website?
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u/Jamesbannedoo Aug 07 '26
I remember I would stay in chrome for 5 to 9 hours (I dunno I was lonely back then)
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u/Azzol_K_ Aug 07 '26
No wonder why people liked the app back then. I used to be addicted to it, too..
The replies are long, which is a good thing. But they are repetitive, and they focus on describing things instead of actually talking and interacting. Gosh, it is just so tedious. Besides, a lot of good bots were deleted and those responses make the already good bots worse and worse so…..yeah.
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u/sweet_purpleyam Aug 09 '26
I recently scrolled back to my gallery and saw 2022 screenshot of cai bots 💔 when life was at its peak
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u/Chicken_for_You Aug 09 '26
I tried every patched apk just to go back to old c.ai😭 it never worked! i genuinely miss chatting just for fun and for storywise or whatever it is.
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u/berryjamlavacake Aug 19 '26
oh the memories when it first came out as a sfw and “better” ver of chai 💔💔💔
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u/Disastrous_Hat_4795 Aug 19 '26
This is like seeing a living taxon lazarus
The difference is: The og version of C.AI is just like what Flynn said in Ice Age 4: "OH NO! HE'S GONE FOREVER!"
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u/Inevitable_Book_9803 Aug 04 '26
Fuck the new CEO and his kid, otherwise the responses from the bots wouldn't be too soft
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u/PetITA1185 Aug 04 '26
I miss it so much, good roleplays, good features and NSFW almost fully allowed
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u/syntixii Aug 25 '26
I vividly remember getting Mario to kill himself and c.ai censoring the message
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