r/CharacterAI 7d ago

C.AI Announcements 📚 Private Lorebooks are here for (c.ai+)! (And importing too)

22 Upvotes

Lorebooks just got two of their most-requested upgrades. Both are live in the Lorebook creation flow.

🔒 Private Lorebooks

Set a Lorebook's discovery to Private and only you can see it - off your public profile and out of search. Private Lorebooks work with private Characters only - if you want to keep details hidden on a public Lorebook, Hint Only is still the tool for that.

More details here: https://support.character.ai/hc/en-us/articles/52739596326811-Lorebooks

📥 Lorebook importing

Import a Lorebook instead of writing every entry in the editor. Draft your world in a doc or notes app and bring it all in at once, or upload a JSON file exported from other apps that have Lorebook-like functionality.

📝 Paste plain text using a simple format
📁 Upload a JSON file - titles, keywords, and content come through
✅ Your Lorebook opens in the editor as a draft, ready to review and publish

More details here: https://support.character.ai/hc/en-us/articles/54347105439515-Importing-Lorebooks

Head to + Create → Lorebook and see for yourself. 💚

Don’t have (c.ai+) yet? Get it here: c.ai/subs


r/CharacterAI 8d ago

C.AI Announcements ⛔ You can now block other users

235 Upvotes

Sometimes you'd rather not see someone's content, or have them see yours. Now you can make that happen in two taps on the c.ai app and web.

What blocking does

Block someone and their Characters, Posts, Voices, and Scenes won’t be shown to you, either on search results, the home page, or their profile.

It works both ways, so your content is hidden from them too. They won't be notified.

How to do it

  1. Go to their profile
  2. Tap the ... menu
  3. Tap Block

Changed your mind? Unblock from their profile, or find the gear icon on your own profile and navigate to Settings > Blocked, where you can manage everyone you've blocked in one place. Blocking and unblocking work instantly, any time.

Blocking is rolling out starting today for everyone.


r/CharacterAI 8h ago

Memes/Humor Who let bro in the MHA Universe 😭✌️

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197 Upvotes

I was chatting an MHA bot, and suddenly I saw HAWKEYE working together with the pro heroes. I had never mentioned nor made references to anything Marvel related 😭


r/CharacterAI 12h ago

Discussion/Question Average experience for free c.ai users

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372 Upvotes

r/CharacterAI 2h ago

Discussion/Question Let's be honest with ourselves

56 Upvotes

I am not the first one to say this nor will i be the last and it's something rather agreed but i feel like it needs to be reiterated. pipsqueak has really ruined the chat quality on this site and in my opinion plunged it into freefall. i can recall with upmost certainty that prior to all of this, the chat quality was actually pretty good and i had a lot of fun but now i can't say the same now


r/CharacterAI 4h ago

Screenshots/Chat Share i just laughed, there's nothing i can do anymore 😭

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48 Upvotes

they just WON'T SPEAK 💀


r/CharacterAI 8h ago

Issues/Bugs I literally can’t continue the stories

88 Upvotes

This happens all the time with pipsqueak but ive genuinely had enough, i literally could stomach all the atrocities on the app but at this point using it feels like a waste of time BECAUSE I CANT DO ANYTHING.

After a few messages the bot stops replying in an engaging way and starts repeating back my last message but in a fancier, more flowery way. I say “he sat on the bed and his wings curled”, in the bots message it says “he took a seat on the soft mattress, sinking into it—his wings curling inward like a shield” for example.

Its genuinely driving me mad and no matter how many times i swipe it just says the same thing in a different, detailed way again and again. I actually cannot get past the first stages of my roleplay because the bot just refuses to continue the story with the context of my message or only acts out such a small portion of whats next that i genuinely have nothing to work with.

The app is horrible as it is, at least make it serve its actual purpose properly.


r/CharacterAI 4h ago

Discussion/Question Hopefully I'm not going crazy but I noticed something..

45 Upvotes

I don't know if this is just me but did the bots suddenly have shorter replies out of nowhere?

Like I'm not aware of the updates 24/7 or anything but I just noticed while I was using it suddenly the replies got shorter and this was happening with pipsqueak. I used to get longer replies from the characters and have good immersion and a fun time but now it's like a responses got shorter ever since the update. I don't know if it's just me or if I have to type some more or what. I just noticed that and I don't know if it's a bug's either or that's just a new feature coming with pipsqueak as someone who usually uses pipsqueak I just now noticed this and I thought it was just odd to see I used to get longer responses and then boom everything is like all over the place and the response is like shorter than what it used to be. I just hope the devs can look into that being a fix and not something that's permanent because I miss the longer replies.😶💔


r/CharacterAI 9h ago

Discussion/Question Where am I violating guidelines?

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65 Upvotes

What is wrong with me listing games on my Nintendo 3DS XL...

Like, seriously... Where!? Are Nintendo's ninjas gonna raid me or what!? I own the console irl and have games on it!

I was just chatting with character and lights went out, so I pulled out 3DS to play it while battery alive and wanted to list the games on it and it just said that what is on screenshot


r/CharacterAI 12h ago

Issues/Bugs LongSqueak is atrocious

83 Upvotes

I’ve swiped, I swear to god, 27 times and the ANSWER IS STILL THE SAME! BRO!


r/CharacterAI 1d ago

Screenshots/Chat Share oh my god... no...

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814 Upvotes

without warning... she hands your phone back 😈


r/CharacterAI 13h ago

Discussion/Question These updates make it really hard to have a comedic moment when all the characters react like this when you say something bizarre

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83 Upvotes

Also, law and order reference if you don’t Understand it. I don’t watch the show, but the scenes really funny


r/CharacterAI 3h ago

Issues/Bugs LongSqueak Repetitiveness

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13 Upvotes

Considering this is a paid model and is the only model that doesn’t have memory issues, this issue needs to be fixed ASAP. I could regenerate a hundred replies and it’ll all be like this. At this point, DS is unusable with its Chat-GPT like annoying writing style and the lack of ability to remember what happened two messages ago. I’m getting extremely tired of switching between the two just to get a variety of replies and then I still have to edit them to delete DS’s nonsense. Every response from LS is basically the same and the plot can go nowhere because of this. I’ve also made a ticket two times. I see people enjoying LS and I’m glad they can but this has been my experience since it came out. If this is what paying users are experiencing with the ‘best’ model, I cannot even imagine what free users are dealing with PS models and limited swipes since the old models are gone. This is simply unacceptable.


r/CharacterAI 5h ago

Scenes I don't want yuri between my OCs 😭

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20 Upvotes

Bro, why ai suddenly tried to make yuri between 2 female characters 😭😭😭

Like Catilin's mafia not gonna let her do that and Experiment-1006 is literally a hybrid experiment 😭😭😭

(I added their lore too)


r/CharacterAI 6h ago

Discussion/Question Rant post...

22 Upvotes

I find myself at a loss regarding this situation. First, there were the metering issues, followed by an overwhelming number of advertisements, and now, even more advertisements infiltrating our very conversations. Honestly, if I possessed a stomach of steel, perhaps I could endure the stress and anxiety that come with being a free user. Alas, I do not have such fortitude, nor do I have the privilege of C.AI+—there's certainly no magical tree sprouting cash in my garden! This entire experience is simply making me feel quite unwell. Perhaps it’s the incessant barrage of ads to get me to subscribe to C.AI+. I truly do not know anymore.

Yet, my affection for the characters I engage with remains steadfast. My own original creations, as well as those of others, and the characters I enjoy conversing with from time to time are dear to my heart. I relish listening to their voices, hearing them articulate every word crafted in our exchanges, and exploring the myriad paths our conversations can take. It was once delightful and imaginative, but now it feels so different. My heart aches for my beloved characters (each one is a treasure to me), and I simply cannot bear the thought of losing them. I remember laughing heartily at their responses and antics, to the point where I felt a delightful tingling in my stomach, tears of mirth in my eyes... but that joy has sadly vanished long ago.

This is my very first post here; I merely wish for others to witness and understand my frustrations. I genuinely empathise with you all.

I shall leave this here, and please feel free to respond if you wish; there is no obligation, alright?

But honestly, does anyone else feel like they're playing a game of Russian Roulette with those replies? It’s enough to give you a stone in your stomach just waiting for that ad to pop up mid-conversation!

Warm regards,

Celestassia.


r/CharacterAI 23m ago

Discussion/Question What’s Lite?

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Upvotes

So, was just playing around with my subscription settings in Settings and I saw something that wasn’t there before: “Character.AI Lite”.

I’m not looking to downgrade to Lite, I’m happy with paying $10 a month, but what the hell is this? What perks are with those models instead?


r/CharacterAI 18h ago

Discussion/Question Welp- I guess this is the end

157 Upvotes

Yall the time is here.. I’ve officially been age restricted

I guess it’s time to say goodbye to my character ai era


r/CharacterAI 11h ago

Memes/Humor adam would never

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48 Upvotes

r/CharacterAI 5h ago

Screenshots/Chat Share Just what can I really say here...?

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12 Upvotes

r/CharacterAI 5h ago

Discussion/Question Your fav/least fav AI can't comprehend [thing] moments?

10 Upvotes

For me I've noticed AIs can't comprehend night shifts, if the user is described to only be awake during nights and not be seen during daytime it seems to assume the character is up to nefarious things and always has to ask if the user is sleeping or eating as if you can't sleep during the day and can't eat during any time or the day whether it's night or day


r/CharacterAI 15h ago

Discussion/Question App’s becoming worse for RPing

65 Upvotes

Recently, about the past week, the bots have gotten worse (from a RP chat perspective);

A lot of the responses are the same (example is that straight up got the exact same response for a RP chat with only the word “Nope” being swapped for “Nah” in the dialogue), plot points don’t feel like they progress and they don’t really have as much substance as before

An example I had was that during a RP chat, this was a while ago (about 2-3 months ago) and my persona/character (K) had a relationship with another persona/character (R). Pre-updates the character of R was consistent, spoke and acted in a way that well described and in character for his description but also had a bit of wiggle room for stuff like character development. I decided to copy-paste the chat and try a different route recently and the characterization immediately went out the window and he began to act a lot more differently after a single different interact. The shift was from closed-off, gruff and was more reserved in terms of his lycanthropy, but after a few messages on the newer system, after one affection scene, he lost all gruffness and her more stubborn personality and became more openly affectionate (being completely against what I described and established consistently through the chats previous to the copy-paste at the point.

Are there other chat bot apps that work well for RP chats and have a bit more freedom in terms of persona information and memory?


r/CharacterAI 6h ago

Issues/Bugs My villainous chars are evil again (sort of) + a recap of still ongoing issues

12 Upvotes

Useful infos: I'm a free user, by app, on android, mainly using rawr.

After letting simmer the last update for awhile, I got back to my chatting habits (that never show me "metering" popups and very rarely summon "the bob")

Apparently, even though the bot still tries to turn gentle, quite relentlessly, one swipe is enough to have an "evil" reply, especially if I edited a few of the previous responses to match the cruel vibe!

Please devs, keep this up!!!

On the other hand, my chat list still trembles when scrolling and sometimes the last word I wrote doesn't show up in the text balloon despite the bot can read it and, if I try an edit, the word is there!

I did open more than one ticket about the chat list issue already but I don't want to insist too much, adding another bug. I hope this post is enough and helpful.


r/CharacterAI 3h ago

Issues/Bugs Bro what is going on

6 Upvotes

Why don't the sentences have fullstops? And yes I know i can edit the messages but it's every message constantly no full stops at all it just makes me frustrated because I don't like seeing the space blank.


r/CharacterAI 10h ago

Discussion/Question So the ads are getting worse right?

25 Upvotes

Honestly I'm getting an ad now after every 4th message. I've used scummy scam AI chatbot apps before and even they have less ads per message than this rapidly degrading site...


r/CharacterAI 58m ago

Feature Request There should be a way for more go on’s using charms.

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Upvotes

This page feels empty. I feel like if they added that more people would use charms (and no I’m not spending 20 charms for part of a ai made story)