Character.ai (chatbot) drama due to censorship

Character.ai is cool. Really early still as most of the bots end up being complete Tommy Flanagans (not the SoA actor; the SNL character).<p>I have HAL 9000; where I took as much as I could from the script and changed out the {{char}}{{user1&#x2F;2}} for the HAL&#x2F;Frank&#x2F;Dave and it works pretty well.<p>The AI even knew about the monolith; it&#x27;s shape and size and what it was doing (emitting high pitched frequencies) which was not in the script I gave it.<p>Also have Vannevar Bush, but stopped using that when he began to tell me he was gay, in a relationship with a ghost named Thomas and they both lived in Ghost City.<p>Though he did have some sweet opinions about Posit numbers when I asked about it and he also seemed to understand the implications of infinite&#x2F;fractal type systems; so that was pretty cool. - Together we discussed how an infinite internet requires the last &lt;&#x2F;html&gt; tag to be open and closed at the same time to exist; which happens to coincide with the observable truth of our quantum state.

Previous discussion on HN about the website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33020694" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33020694</a><p>For the last few days, there seem to be a lot of new users discovering the website, due to word of it spreading within the vtuber community, and a Washington Post article.<p>Currently, the website has been down for almost an entire day now. I assume the devs are trying to figure out how to deal with this.<p>The devs apparently wrote a statement which then got deleted from some reason (TLDR: They say some of the issues were unintended side effects of changes made to handle the increase in users, and the devs are trying to fix the issues. There&#x27;s also a separate set of issues that were side effects from a change intended to censor NSFW stuff.) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;CharacterAI&#x2F;comments&#x2F;y03ncu&#x2F;newsupdate_to_quality_changes_that_got_deleted&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;CharacterAI&#x2F;comments&#x2F;y03ncu&#x2F;newsupd...</a><p>Some users are extremely angry, and their discord got so bad that they had to (justifiably) shut down it completely (hopefully temporarily). And I&#x27;ve heard of harassment and even suicide threats (Can&#x27;t find the source though).

It&#x27;s such a cool concept. I hope they figure out how to handle these issues. There is a lot of potential for bots of this kind, in a lot of different contexts, assuming they can work out how to navigate the early days of UGC (AIGC?) content products.