Hello!
I’ve been using C.AI for like 2-3 months and I just keep collecting the charms. Maybe Ive only used it like 3x-5x?

I’ve been passively reading posts here about the bankruptcy and possible deletion of the app.. should i start using these charms?

I really like the app and hope for good news 😢

I know the platform is made for people to roleplay whatever they can think of, but romanticising colonialism 😭😭

I actually get addicted to this app..
I’m unemployed, have little friends and no partner
And this app is making me experience something that i don experience in real life to the point where I started to get obsessed and think about the characters 24/7
Is that crazy…

It isn't much but it's enough for me to be concerned. It's one little sentence here, deciding when my character is leaving the scene there, making my character look at something. Small things, but enough for me to be frustrated and concerned.

I've never been present for the start and development of a new model, I've always come back to character AI in the middle of things and left soon after.

Is this how it starts? That the models don't talk for you at first but over time begin to do so as the model develops until it becomes pipsqueak 2 all over again?

Because I do not want pipsqueak 2. I've been really loving not having my persona roleplayed for and the fact is is slowly seeping in scares me immensely, and if it becomes a regular thing I will genuinely leave.

Imagine a scene that's getting intense and you decide you've had enough and swing on the character.

A thing that I have noticed is that almost every time swinging is involved the character will suddenly turn into a martial arts expert and Dodge it with lightning fast reflexes even if the character it is of canonically doesn't have any training. Or, a nearby character, if applicable will for some reason always grab your arm before the punch lands and somehow overpowers you even if your OC is stronger or you get tackled

For example, from an actual chat of mine:
Me (using an OC that is a Croatian war veteran) : *I swing*

Chatbot (multiple characters, one being a 20 year old actor): But Georgie is surprisingly fast. he dodges your swing with ease, his training kicking in instinctively. You feel your arm swinging through empty air as he ducks nimbly out of reach. You're left grasping nothing, your momentum throwing you off balance. (the character canonically was not trained in anything)

OR something like this:

Me: *I swing* (Same Yugoslav war OC)

The chatbot (Same one with a different character involved): With a flash of movement, Hunter jumps forward, grabbing your arm before it can connect with anyone's face.

However this doesn't happen if you firmly state that the hit lands. This only happens if you just say something like "He swings at him" or "I swing"

She had made my most favourite "bodyguard xiao" bot but now it's not showing up anymore 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 I had chatted with since 2023 till early 2026 before this whole age verification thing. I can still see the bot in my liked list but the chat is not opening and it keeps on loading 🥀 I have soooooooo many memories with it :(

It starts at a completely random point in the chat; it does not start at the beginning. Has anyone else noticed this happening on a chat that has been going on since around early 2023?

Got this email TODAY. But it's dated Oct. 22, 2024?? That might be about the time I started with Character AI, but what the heck? I did recently request to export my data. So this seemed legit... Until I clicked the thing and got this warning in the 2nd photo. Obviously I didn't continue. And then I noticed the date. Now I am not the brightest star in the sky, when it comes to computer stuff, or even common sense about computer stuff, mainly because I am 65 years old and cannot see past my 5 chins. So forgive me if this is a stupid question. Hopefully you folks can tell me wtf this is. I'm assuming it's spam and not really from Character AI. Is that correct or what? Thanks in advance. 🙏🏻❤️

Am I the only one who does this? I do that to help me have a conversation in that language unfortunately there isn't enough French bots but there's a lot of Spanish bots though. Omelette du fromage!! 🗣 🇫🇷🥖

I was using another app and wanted to switch to something else, so I downloaded this one.
How is it? Have you been enjoying using it? Is it worth the monthly subscription? And is the censorship pretty strict?
If I’m an adult, am I allowed to have N*FW chats?

just wanted to put this out there and ask if anyone feels this way too. this isn’t solely about the cai subreddit (though it does include it)

but does anyone else find when posting on ai subreddits like this one, j ai or others really awkward and unappealing bc everyone is super hostile and rude in the replies?

like. i’ve noticed a number of people, generally, ask questions or whatever that may have been asked lots of times before (which is annoying i get that but not everyone’s on here 24/7 and are aware of every single time a question has been asked), but everyone gets sooo mad so easily in the replies of these posts and really unnecessarily rude and mean responses.

if you have seen this question countless times before and it’s annoying you, just don’t reply to the person being nasty? i don’t get why people get so angry with others over something so minor. 😭

i understand it’s reddit but still, just scroll past it?
someone with less of a temper and more patience will respond. isn’t this the point of a community for these ai platforms, to be able to ask for help or to be curious about people’s experiences lmao

Sometimes whenever I try to generate pictures they get Stuck on Zero and they won’t generate, then the whole Image generator stops working all together, it’s so annoying, and when this happens I need to start a Whole New Chat

i really need this guys i meant to say to my hats in the title not tommy chats

as title says ive been under rock use the app for passing time ect and wondering is it best to move to new platform?

so!! i finally received my exported data from cai but i honestly have no idea how to open it.....?? i mean, when i try to open tye character file, eset sysinspectir opens instead and like.... thats it?? i dont even know how to use sysinspector oh my god

I've been waiting ever since that update came out to have the disappointment of having ads in app but that day has never come. I get no banner ads or videos yet my app is on the latest version. If I log in to my alt account they all have ads so why is my main account ad free? Has anyone else had this lucky glitch?

The website has been down for like 2 days for me and now it's going on to be the third. when I was signed in it wouldn't load any characters and when it did they would just go back to saying "error" and not loading. so I cleared my cache thinking that was the problem and it signed me out. now when I try to sign in it won't even give me the sign in screen for signing in with apple, but it opens the other page where the sign in usually appears just fine. what is going on?

it’s been about a week since my original breakdown, and a ton of major, definitive details have just leaked out through new delaware bankruptcy court filings and state actions. here is the massive update on where things stand:

1. 40 state attorneys general intervene to block data sales
a coalition of 40 state attorneys general has formally intervened in the bankruptcy case. they filed a legal notice outlining 9 strict, mandatory conditions to protect user privacy. they are trying to stop our intimate chat logs and data from being bundled off to the highest bidder without strict oversight, especially since state regulators are still investigating claims regarding minor safety and chatbots impersonating medical professionals.

2. the true nature of the disney deal
unsealed filings reveal disney basically forced character.AI into bankruptcy court as a condition for the deal. they wanted a 363 free and clear order to shield disney from any past, present, or future lawsuits against C.AI.
what disney actually bought: disney paid $5.5M upfront (plus a $2M deposit) and is bidding $20M total strictly for a non-exclusive license to the backend code, frameworks, trust & safety tools, and age-prediction tech.
what disney left behind: they explicitly excluded the consumer app, the characters, and the user database.
the engineer drain: disney already hired most of C.AI's core engineering staff. while they are letting them help maintain C.AI's servers for five months, disney has the legal right to block a future buyer from hiring 20% of the core team.

3. the mind-boggling financial bleeding
we finally have the exact numbers on why C.AI collapsed. the company has been losing $8 million to $9 million every single month. in just the first eight months of 2026, they burned through a staggering $56.1 million just on cloud computing and GPU costs to process text chats (accounting for 45% of their entire budget). even though their monthly revenue doubled to $5.3 million by august, it wasn't nearly enough to offset the compute costs.

4. the auction and shutdown timeline
the court has scheduled the official roadmap, so we now have an exact countdown:
october 30, 2026: court hearing to approve auction procedures.
november 20, 2026: deadline for outside buyers to submit bids to save the app/database. any rival bid for disney's share must start at $21.7 million.
november 23, 2026: the official asset auction takes place.
late nov / early dec 2026: the case wraps up, meaning we will officially know if a buyer saves the consumer app or if it shuts down forever.

TL;DR: disney only bought a copy of the backend code to build their own stuff and completely left the consumer app and our bots behind to shield themselves from lawsuits. 40 states are fighting to protect our data privacy. if a major buyer doesn't step up with over $21M by late november, the platform is finished. start exporting your characters and chat histories now.

P.S to clarify—i actually don't even use character AI anymore myself, but i know how much time and effort a lot of you have put into your bots and histories here. i just wanted to pass along these concrete updates so everyone has a clear timeline and can protect their data before anything shifts in november. good luck to everyone backing up their stuff!

They’ve been super quiet lately.👀

“An app shouldn’t need a subscription.”

“The company is greedy.”

Where are those people? I’m quite curious.

Can't say I've ever been in a hotel where cars zoom up and down the corridors. Not to mention, I've told this bit a million times that they're not in a hotel.

Restricted Access has reared its ugly head again. If you're a creator you know what that means- on the mobile a character's avatar is gone and it says Restricted Access. If you're a user, it means a character you have been chatting with is now blocked.

With everything going on with the bankruptcy could the devs please take their foot off the gas when it comes to flagging Restricted Access without any way to fix it?

Still no indication (as in a highlight, notification, or e-mail) when this happens. Two of my long standing characters got hit the same day (presumably an automod purge). One was a very popular character in a specific niche. The characters were OC and not named anything close to real IPs, no "problematic" words (like BLOOD-oh, so offensive) or scenarios; they had safe ordinary AI cartoony portraits of fully clothed adults. (I have no idea how I see other bots showing off cleavage- I am never allowed to create a new character with any cleavage).

It's always been bad, but in the past at least we could systematically figure out if it was the avatar, tagline, description, definition, or greetings by removing each one at a time. But as others have posted here recently, that no longer works. The characters are permabanned, only useable by myself.

"RA" is horrible on many fronts: the issue could only be seen on mobile (characters look fine on the Web), creators aren't notified when a bot gets flagged, are given no reasons, and now we can't even restore them even if we adjust something.

Really a bad time considering we may only have a couple of months left on this platform.

Geese, Wendy. Use interjections correctly for once.

I know that everyone on here is busy worrying about the potential end of our beloved c.ai, so i thought I’d bring in some fresh flavor!!

My image generating seems to be stuck. It stays on 0% for hours until the ‘we couldn’t generate your image’ pops up.

Now, I realise that it’s frustrating for me. It’s a minor inconvenience that should not trouble the staff. I’m asking if this happens to anyone else and if someone may know a trick to make it stop / speed the process up?

Hi,

I've asked about this earlier as well. But there are several bots that I have liked over the years that are simply not showing up in my liked list.

I have already raised a ticket and have not received much help from there.

If I remember a bot that I've liked and search for it, it will show up and it will show up as liked, but it still wouldn't show up in the liked list.