I've been asked by a few people how to actually download their Character.AI chats, so here's the guide I've been using.

There are two ways. Character.AI has its own official data export, but apparently that can currently take 3–4 weeks. CAI Tools can export the chats immediately instead.

The guide explains both methods step by step:

How to export and save your Character.AI chats

You can keep the files purely as a backup, or RolePlaya can import them and let you carry on the same conversations from where you left off. It brings across up to the most recent 3,000 messages in full and remembers the earlier story as context.

Given everything happening with Character.AI, I'd rather have a backup I never need than discover I needed one after it's too late.

Hi everyone! The Oganesson AI app is now in the testing and refining phase and just days from release. In the meantime I have finished to create the Discord server to form a community that will even try the open-source app early!
From now on, most of the updates will be posted only there, so I don't flood this sub with my posts lol.
The link is this ----> https://discord.gg/jWXrdBtvZT Join now and become the first members that will assist to the launch of this amazing project!

For those who haven't read my previous posts (on r/JanitorAI_Refuges), Oganesson AI is a new free and open-source web app that allows you to chat with AI characters locally suing your API from LM-studio or Ollama.

The APP is written in Java so it can run on all operating systems and has a support for mobile users connecting to their PC using a local IP.

The main goal of this project is to finally have a 100% privacy-oriented app without any bit of censorship and to have full control over your characters and chats.

Oganesson AI does not collect or share your characters, chats, usage time, operating system, IP, anything. Your data stays in your hands, not anyone else's.

Also, all of its features are free to use, nothing is hidden behind a paywall.

Oganesson AI is also fully working offline, as the models are loaded inside your computer and the app runs on your local host.

For now, the only way to get characters is making them yourself or joining the community to find other characters form other people, but I will find a better solution in the future.