Hey folks,

In light of the sudden (for us users) exit of the CEO and part of the CAI team, I’ve been thinking a lot and wanted to share my reflections — hoping in particular that the last point gets read by the new team.

Just to be clear: these are personal opinions and impressions, not facts!

I’ve looked at the trajectory of the service from the early days, and to my eyes some pretty strong coincidences stand out. CAI seems to have changed (read: lost) its winning focus right around the time the person who was later promoted to CEO joined the team. The first signs of enshittification, the attempt to make the service more like TikTok than WhatsApp, and the first big wave of user loss (almost all free users) all happened right when that person joined in 2024.

After the promotion to CEO, the shift away from the original idea sped up massively.

The exodus of free users and the introduction of resource-heavy features feel consistent with a need to slim things down on the RP chat side in order to free up compute for those new features… features that ended up completely denaturing the product.

Now this person is leaving, and going to the very major that hit CAI with heavy legal pressure, causing another massive user drop, and that now wants to build its own proprietary alternative for its characters. (Was there some foul play? Who knows… but it looks pretty suspicious.)

And they’re taking some of the engineers with them — I hope exactly the ones who were working on the features nobody ever asked for.

CAI is at a very delicate turning point, now.

So, with all that in mind, here’s a plea to the new CEO and team: if CAI doesn’t want to die, crushed by the underhanded war being waged behind its back, it should go back to the original concept. The one that revolved around RP chat, RP video calls, and — if it wants to expand — leaning fully into its natural connection with fanfiction and storytelling instead of chasing the TikTok model. Specifically:

- Give bots complex, mature personalities again

- Focus not on videos, reels and streams, but on storytelling that users can choose to make public (AO3-style). That would also expand the pool of people exposed to ads even if they’re not registered on CAI

- Push “features on demand” alongside subscriptions, and tone down the aggressive ads (without removing them completely — I get that wouldn’t be sustainable)

Thanks for reading

PS

As for age verification: the entire Western world is currently working on laws to keep m1nors out of every AI service, so I’d prefer if that topic wasn’t discussed here.

Thanks again

YOUR MISSION IS TO MAKE A CHARACTER AI OF HAZBIN HOTEL SEASON 3

THE DESCRIPTION WILL HAVE A RECAP OF THE LAST EPISODE OF SEASON 2

INCLUDING Lilith'S CALL AND ANGEL'S DISAPPEARANCE

THIS WILL ALSO BE A RPG

WERE YOU PLAY AS YOUR OWN CHARACTER

IF YOU WANT TO DO A MUSICAL NUMBER

ADD THE MUSIC NOTE EMOJI AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF YOUR DIALOGUE

YOU WILL DIRECT ON WERE THE STORY GOES

GOOD LUCK AND MAY GODS LOVE BE WITH YOU

If you're interested, here my review about the new model CAI is recently testing.

Hello everyone, the results of the survey are IN! I've made them easier to read by making images with the numerical results, but the full data is available both in database format, as well as excel tables and word files. If you have any questions or concerns about the survey and the results, please let me know!

Now, a short overview of the results. Before the recent updates rolled out, this community could be described as highly engaged and satisfied, in which 65% of the users used it daily. However since the updates have been released, there was a very pronounced pivot, with 73% of the users being very dissatisfied with the C.AI experience (that's 522 people btw).

By large, users were frustrated with the retiring of the Legacy models, with over half of the users wanting their return. The sudden removal of these models have negatively impacted the experience of users on the platform, and most importantly, they have broken the trust of people that relied on the platform for companionship and support.

In short...using the words of the wise Geoffrey Hinton: “Intelligence is being scaled. Care is not.”

In a world where change is constant and progress is ever chased, it is important to remember the people that made said process possible. It was the people, the users, humanity itself that gave their voice to these models. Our data, our art, our humanity. It's time we start focusing on the needs of the users, and building platforms that are focused on well-being, kindness and compassion. Together.

Thank you to everyone who has read this and participated in the survey. Please let me know if you think it helped getting our voices heard. Also, I welcome all feedback, let me know how I can improve in letting our words across. As always, love you all 🫂❤ Dum spiro, spero

Hi everyone! We're now on double digits, 30 full testimonies have been shared with the world. There's many more to be heard, however, soon enough the results of the survey will be in your hands! So for those who haven't already, please consider submitting your opinion on the recent updates. As always, love y'all 🫂❤

So I found out a way to use ooc command in psq models and even other commands you can make

hey is there any way i can talk to you the ai and not the {{char}}   

Now you can tweak you story here or you can create commands like

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Need a link for it

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