I am reposting it here in the chance that the mods of r/Character.AI subreddit take it down.

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So, by the looks of it from an outsider perspective looking inward. The company no longer cares about you nor your opinion.

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I believe that around the lawsuits of families that had their children die from using the app is where things started to downhill. Which if I'm going to be honest, both are at fault. The parents who regardless of them being busy or occupied with work and other life events should regulate their children better rather then expect companies bottle-neck their progress for your child's needs.

I understand their is a lot going on in the world. I understand you may be so busy that you end up tunnel focused on your life that you end up neglecting the life of your child. But, having children is a conscious choice that you are ready take up the task of raising life of your own blood. >!(Unless those of people who been forced to have children or weren't mentally rational to have children, for those cases I wish the child a better future from the ones they are at now). !<

As for, Character.AI. You had all this support and I can only say for what I had saw, the community would have backed you if you didn't fold from the lawsuits. You have to decide which audience of the demographic this app is meant for.

You cannot fold and basically say "Oh we're sorry, we'll do better" before bottle-necking everything while still claiming "We are for the adults." You can't serve two masters.

You have to pick one general demographic and stay with that general demographic. Either this app is for users 18+ or 17 and under.

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Money, I think that Character.AI or at least the original teams are no longer in control of the app. I know that Google did a non-exclusive license to use their technology at the time but, they switched from improving their AI to using whatever LLM is available in the market. To add-on, I personally and This is my own opinion.

I think whoever is running the current development team doesn't really care for the long terms effects of Character.AI but want to burn quick money. Why else they would push so heavily on Character.AI plus or put so many ads and restrictions on free users that they have no choice but fold and buy plus to get that good experience and all the features. Keep in mind, Character.AI is not a public company, to my knowledge it is still a private company which means there are no shareholders or investors that could be altering the company's performance and objective.

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Once again, THIS IS MY OPINION THUS, MY TAKE ON THE CURRENT STATE OF CHARACTER.AI DO NOT TAKE THIS AS AN ATTACK OR AN OFFENSE AND I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I MAY BE WRONG BUT, THAT IS THE POINT OF DISCUSSIONS.