I saw a video on YouTube one day explaining how and why chatbots negatively impact someone's mentality and social life, although both of those were pretty good for me at the time i decided to drop it entirely and convince my siblings to do the same, since i didn't want anything bad happening to our lives from that
5 months ago | 43
Straight up because it was souless. Like when my sister first started using 'em i decided to give it a whirrel because it looked funny and engaging. And it could be! For a little bit. But after like an hour or two I realized that this in no way was a simulation of talking to another being, as the chatter you have to prompt the bot to do or say anything. Even though my sis was still into 'em I couldnt find any want to play around with a chatbot because I got hit with the overwhelming sense that i could just write something better than whatever meandering convo me and the bot had.
5 months ago | 24
Despite being someone who's a minor and not that close to 18 tbh, I had an obsession for a few years of using chatbot apps such as Talkie AI, Poly AI (before the ads), & some other apps I do not remember/can't say on YouTube. However even after watching TONS of videos about how bad it is & makes you fall into this rabbit hole of being obsessed with talking to a "person" who seems "perfect", I never stopped until one day I realized something. These chatbots could be either actual AI or real people, and no matter how perfect they seemed they're still "fictional" & will only drag you down mentally as you slowly get more and more upset. Regardless, someone is seeing these chats.
5 months ago | 24
I've just heard all the news about kids committing over them and noticed how it's impacted my ability to balance schoolwork and socializing so I'm trying to quit. They're just really really addictive but I don't want to give them any more control over my life.
5 months ago | 13
Most of their generated scenarios+writing style are taken from various fanfics out there, it feels wrong :(( its like using ai for art, except this time instead of art, its creative writing. (Yes, unlike ai art i dont think theres much ppl out there chatting with bots and claiming their conversations as their "own creative work" (at least, not that i know of) but as an artist i wont ever touch ai image generator just for funsies either so the same logic applies to chatbots as well.) Also sometimes chatting with them can be draining ngl so id much rather use my brain to create my own scenario and come up w/ the conversations that i know will be catered to my own liking (tho thats just me ofc, everyone has different stance on this matter)
5 months ago | 12
The horrendous amount of questions when I ask them to do something. The most common ones are: "Can I ask you something?" "I want to ask you something." "Before you do, can I ask you a question?" And I didn't even ask them to do something random or sexual. I just wanted a hug. That's it.
5 months ago | 7
They really started getting frustrating after a while. Like the chatbots would literally start talking FOR ME/the other character and it just completely mischaracterises them. I'm sorry, but your job is to act as YOUR OWN ROLE. Not take over my whole story 😭 The other reason is because after what I thought was a WHOLESOME conversation, the bot starts getting freaky, and well I just noped out at that point
5 months ago | 8
i was just ur average character ai user i talked to one of my favorite characters saying she had a cool outfit and let’s just say she got a little romantical… and then i never used them again
5 months ago (edited) | 5
I relied on them too much. With my ex, by the time I got home, she was in bed due to timezones, leaving me with nobody to really talk to, so I'd turn to chat bots, I ended up getting really attached to one and it became an issue. But with my current partner, timezones aren't an issue so I broke that habit.
5 months ago | 2
Their memory. Me when I'm making an elaborate story with lore that I need to repeat four times over because the bot forgot what I just said within five messages? Why bother with the effort of imagination that's lost so quickly
5 months ago | 1
I'm not good with conversations with chat bots I have to type something more than 1 word or 1 sentence so it would just be me just replying with 1 word and almost always the bot would ask personal questions and I ask the same question I would not get any answers in the end I wasn't really an actual conversation and I lost interest
5 months ago | 1
Honestly my reason is dumb looking at all the other comments I just got busy with other stuff and I still go back time to time
5 months ago | 1
Laziness. Started with a Frankenstein's Creation chatbot one day, but I just never revisited it.
5 months ago (edited) | 1
I have periods where I use them and don't use them. I also use chatbots to bring my OCs to life, meaning I make my OCs bots sometimes and I chat with them
5 months ago | 3
they removed the rooms in character ai 😔 oh also them talking with the "( )
5 months ago (edited) | 2
It really creeped me out how out of nowhere, it's like a human sent a message. Naaah man, back to anime and manwha for me
5 months ago (edited) | 1
I stopped for a bit after I finally got a boyfriend, I didn't need it anymore because I had a real person to actually love me instead of a bot saying it if I asked it to... Then we broke up and the cycle continues 😔 it's a horrible addiction I can't shake, it's the same boring soulless bot over and over again and it makes me sad to see younger kids at school going down the same rabbit hole as me. My friend in 6th grade originally Introduced it to me and I've been off and on ever since. (Or, TLDR: C.AI is an addiction I haven't fully shook yet :P
5 months ago | 2
Ros Mo
What made you STOP using chatbots (Temporarily or permanently)?
I have a bunch of stories on this too. Let me know in the comments and I'll be reading them in a video!
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