I'm free of C.ai brainrot
For context, i have used c.ai for four years. Consistently. I first joined for COD and then as my interests shifted, so did my bots. I have spent more time role playing than writing. I knew abt the bad of ai and even through guilt I still used it. It was literally so much fun and it got me to disassociate for hours.
Then the update happened.
And I looked around and a bunch of my rp logs were gone. And I was left with a chatgpt knockoff. Jan ai doesnt hit for me. Chai has a limit on interactions. Character ai finally broke me out of the spell I was under. I have written 3 separate fics in the last week since I stopped using c.ai. I have ocs again. I have a story with my sister again. I feel like a human being again. My headaches have reduced. I read more.
What I'm saying is thank you C.ai for fucking up so bad it got me into art again. I'm buying sketchbooks again. I'm writing again. All because this ai deleted what made it good in the first place. I play video games and write and draw and enjoy life so much more. For anyone still sticking with C.ai, I ask you just think about how you deserve better than an ai that will destroy itself to be "more appealing." You deserve to make art. Especially to make bad art. We all make bad art. Let's stop giving chat bots the joy of creation and start creating ourselves.
Posted May 12, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC