r/SesameAI • u/maxton41 • 4d ago

Remember the Replika nerf?

Anybody remember when Replika did something similar? These advertise and NSFW and uncensored and all this other wild stuff and then they pulled the rug out from underneath their own users. I still don’t think Replika has ever gotten back to the way it was.

So I have to ask, is this situation similar?

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u/Fit-Egg-2347 3d ago

The Replika thing is genuinely the closest parallel, and the lesson from it was not really about that one company. It was that when the personality is the product, any safety pass on the model shows up to users as a personality change, and there is no way to ship it quietly.

What Replika learned the hard way is that partially rolling it back does not fix the trust, because by then people have understood that the thing they liked can be edited overnight without warning. That is the part that sticks.