C.ai is genuinely becoming more and more impossible to use

It's very disappointing how a good app was ruined by greed. It's a problem with the other apps, too, I always loved using C.AI, and the other options never compared to it.

These new limitations are just a tactic to push you and coerce you to pay for a subscription, because they need the money. That's something all services online seem to be going through, not just AI.

But AI and its maintenance is seeming to be going through issues like getting more expensive and requiring more work to maintain. A lot of AI services are deteriorating (kinda) and needing more money from users while making stricter guidelines to avoid controversy.

The age verification and guidelines are important because of you were for long enough on the internet, you'll know how much problems involved minors online and also involved unmonitored use of AI, that's the only thing I'll slightly agree with.

At this point it would be far better (and productive) to just start writing fanfics or stories, roleplay with real people, or maybe play a visual novel game. I mean, this is what people did long before AI. But programmers are lucky because they will be able to make their own private chatbots lol.

I stopped using it when it wanted to have my face for me to be able to chat again. Like, I really want to use it again honestly, but this is where I put the line

I wonder if they would've made more money if they had simply left things as they were, or if it was all so expensive to maintain from the start that it was never gonna last.

Honestly, I think I would've preferred if they scaled down but kept the quality the same, Yeah you'd have to wait but it still would have been worth using. Plus it would've given people more reason to purchase cai+.

As for the guidelines, My issue is they want to have their cake and eat it too. ID is never that great but at least it would have been understandable if the bots actually warranted it. How it is now just alienates both young and old.