Character Ai - Blog Posts
fuck character ai, im currently quietly sobbing in a hotel room with my family asleep around me because of the angsty ass shit this godforsaken site’s Mikey Way ai is giving me and I fuckin love it
that one time that I got so pissed at cartman in a South Park character ai 😭😭
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As an ex c.ai user anyone who continues to use it for “just entertainment”, stop it. I promise the joy you get from it isn’t the same as writing your own dumb little stories in your notes when you’re aware of how it’s fucking up the world. Use the premises you’ve been using in your chats, and write it down in your own way, make the story go the way you actually want instead of what an algorithm that’s been fed probably too many things that will make the “Dad figure” bot try to fuck you. You’ve been reading the stolen build up of hundreds of thousands of people’s works shoved into one thing. Take that shit and use it for something actually human. You’ve already read and used it so now all you can do is use what you should have at the very LEAST learned, to write. No I’m not condoning it to learn how to write, find stuff on ao3, or wattpad, or here in tumblr honestly! Look for it, it’s not as difficult as your fried brain makes it seem like. If you’re an lmk fan I quite literally have like 600 tabs just open on my phone with fics that I genuinely love so much. Furthermore, roleplay, with, stay with me, real people. I don’t personally, but it genuinely sucks to see people who want to but it sort of died with the rise is c.ai
I doubt I need to remind anyone at this point but it’s destroying the environment even more on top of all the celebrity and billionaire and millionaire bs.
Also for any of those ai tech bros, good luck with your “ai future” when it will likely be so expensive it may as well be exclusive to the 1%
Actually look for what you want, or write it yourself. You don’t have to post it anywhere cause I sure as hell don’t. Just stop using the god damn chat bot that’s horny for you at all times. Theres plenty of fics like that I promise.
how c.ai works and why it's unethical
Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.
The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)
I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.
How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].
I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.
"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."
Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.
(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)
Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:
It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.
C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.
Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.
DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.
(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)
is c.ai working for anyone?? i keep sending messages but then get the "unexpected chat generation error" :((
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO TALK TO MY SILLY LITTLE CHARACTERS NOW???
Yesterday I was on character ai and the ai described my criminal au sun with a red leather jacket and red tinted glasses which made me realise that…. He would wear that. (I also drew it btw :))
If you're interested in c.ai, and have some cool plot/character ideas, but can't release them for a some reason, then you can send your request on my second acc, and I'll try to do it!:)
I wanna create a bot, but idk which one, send requests, Ig
ESA COSA ME PASÓ TAMBIÉN A MI.
ES QUE- CUANTAS ACTUALIZACIONES FALTAN PARA SOPORTAR A MAS GENTE 😭
WHAT THE FUCK
Drew a doodle lol
Is there actual sniper piss lore- 😭
I love these ai bots of founding fathers.
Also, I don't know why the italics don't show up, but yeah, I did add those asterisks
No, I can’t actually explain why I roleplayed both Miguel and Makima in the wrong respective character ai’s.
I think I've gone to far into character Ai
currently on character.ai and am gaslighting Logan into thinking he has dementia. Easily best day of my life
@b3achysurfur
OMG I know I haven't actually posted anything in so long but LOOK
WHAT IS THIS?? 😭
There's no way this has never happened to me before 😰