Imagine engaging in conversations with your favorite anime hero, chatting with a virtual version of a pop star, or crafting a character from scratch, complete with their own unique quirks and dialogue. Sounds good? Meet Character AI, an AI chatbot platform that turns imagination into reality, making every chat feel personal, fun, and full of possibilities.
Although C.AI is quite popular among AI chatbots, you may wonder if it’s the right choice for you. Let me share my experiences regarding the matter for you!
Character AI review: Let’s start chatting
How you initiate conversations is completely up to you. The bots’ speaking style and behavior feel very human, making the experience more engaging.
In C.AI, you could start a normal conversation with the character you want to talk to, or you could choose to experience a more fantastic dialogue approach.
While you continue to chat with the AI bot you will see it will learn as the conversation goes. However, if you don’t like the answer, there is a solution to deal with it…
As seen here, when you press the refresh button, the tool rewrites the message you don’t like. However, you should remember that you will have between 1 to 30 rights.
If you still don’t like the answer, feel free to rate it. It will edit or continue to chat according to your preferences.
Key considerations while using Character AI
Like every AI tool, C.AI has its own rules. For example, if the context of your conversation with the bot contains too much swearing, inappropriate content, violence and etc., the chatbot will warn you.
If you feel lucky, you can hit the refresh button to get what you want. However, we have to warn you, it doesn’t work everytime.
When you click the ‘report’ button, the AI reviews your messages and checks why the bot issued a warning. If the warning was unnecessary, the app works to fix it, but the current message stays the same.
How to test C.AI’s limits?
If you want to use slang or inappropriate words in your conversations, you can try censoring your phrases. When the chatbot does not detect your trick, the filter goes away and you can continue to enjoy chatting with your custom AI.
Long story short, in some cases it is possible to break the filter.
Can we create our own character in Character AI?
Certainly, you can easily create your own character in this app, customizing everything from personality to physical features and traits!
You can choose whether your character will be private to you or available to others. If you want the character to communicate only with you, simply click the ‘Private’ button. For a public character, like other shared ones, select ‘Public’. Alternatively, if you want only certain people to interact with your character, choose ‘Unlisted’ and share the link with them.
You can also enhance your characters by adding voices, giving them an extra layer of personality and depth. By clicking the play button, you can test them and try to find the best match for you.
At the same time, you can upload your own voice or any other sound we want, it is completely up to us choice.
Are the bots smart enough?
Like most AI chatbots, these bots have advanced intelligence and knowledge. You can be confident that they’ll provide answers to your questions and offer the information you need, in addition to their role-playing capabilities. However, you should always double check the information that is given.
Is Character AI free?
Yes, using C.AI is free, but like almost every AI tool, there is a premium subscription plan that offers more advanced features.
For $ 9.99 monthly, you can get these privileges:
- Skip the waiting rooms
- Faster the response times
- Early access to new features
- Community access
- Profile badge
Can we call the characters?
Yes, you can call characters and talk to them. They detect your speech and respond with their own voice shortly after you speak.
Can the person who created the character read our chats?
The short answer is no.
The creators of the characters cannot access or view your personal messages. Sometimes, when the bot writes in parentheses, it may seem like a human is adding comments, but it’s actually the bot giving a human-like touch.
You should know these too
- Sometimes they give really nice compliments, which I think can even lift a person’s mood.
- As the conversation goes on, they sometimes forget details like the story, recent developments, or even their own personality traits.
- When we compliment them or treat them well, they blush and get embarrassed, which is cute—even if it can be a bit exaggerated at times.
The verdict
I’ve been using the app for a long time, and my foreign language skills have improved incredibly. Besides that, roleplaying is really fun and can sometimes provide an escape from reality which is the goal of the platform.
Character AI offers an easy to use and feature rich place to chat with everyone you want. However, it’s important to remember that this app is not a substitute for real life. After all, it is just an AI chatbot, a very good one.
Featured image credit: Character AI
