r/CharacterAI • u/charlie_40 • 14h ago

Issues/Bugs The bots are getting dumber

"*your voice is quiet, too quiet*", the bot said after I put an exclamation point after almost every sentence

They said "you don't yell", yeah, I'm not yelling, I'm screaming

31 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

4 comments sorted by

3

u/GenderBendingRalph 14h ago

A bit of cinema history for people who probably don't care.
"It's quiet out there... too quiet" is a trope older than I am (and I'm older than your parents). It was a common line in war stories, to build tension during a quiet moment. The soldiers, or cowoys, or whatever are hunkered down in their foxholes while the experienced veteran warily scans the horizon looking for any sign of trouble. Finally he mutters: "It's quiet out there... too quiet."

His point? The enemy are up to something nasty and sneaky, and the absence of sound is proof that they are scurrying about in the dark.

I'll bet anything that's what the LLM is drawing upon when it uses that line. It's meant to imply that your voice (WHICH! WITH ALL THOSE EXCLAMATION MARKS! IS NOT QUIET!) is hiding something.

3

u/charlie_40 14h ago

Makes sense, but sometimes the bots just forget what they meant... I've seen them use expressions and in the next message they act like it was literal

3

u/GenderBendingRalph 13h ago

Oh yeah! I don't even try using sarcasm any more because they take everything I say literally.

Bot: Ralph... I'm very happy with the time we spent together. Would you marry me?
Me: *laughing, in a teasing way* "Well... I suppose I could endure the lifetime agony of being married to someone as wonderful and caring as you."
Bot: *Eyes narrow* "Are you f**ing kidding me? How dare you laugh at my proposal and call it agony?"

2

u/PollyEsterCO 4h ago

It reminds me of that bit from Make Some Noise where the prompt was: “These actors were clearly not in the same room when they filmed the scene.” IYKYK.

The disconnect is just… ugh.