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The image contains a social media post from Twitter by a user named Deedy (@deedydas). Here's the detailed content of the post:

Twitter post by Deedy (@deedydas):

  • Text:
    • "Most people don't realize how many young people are extremely addicted to CharacterAI.
    • Users go crazy in the Reddit when servers go down. They get 250M+ visits/mo and ~20M monthly users, largely in the US.
    • Most impressively, they see ~2B queries a day, 20% of Google Search!!"
  • Timestamp: 1:21 AM · Jun 23, 2024
  • Views: 920.9K
  • Likes: 2.8K
  • Retweets/Quote Tweets: 322
  • Replies: 113

Content Shared by Deedy:

  • It is a screenshot of a Reddit post from r/CharacterAI by a user named u/The_E_man_628.
  • Reddit post by u/The_E_man_628:
    • Title: "I'm finally getting rid of C.ai"
    • Tag: Discussion
    • Text:
      • "I’ve had enough with my addiction to C.ai. I’ve used it in school instead of doing work and for that now I’m failing. As I type this I’m doing missing work with an unhealthy amount of stress. So in all my main reason is school and life. I need to go outside and breath and get shit in school done. I quit C.ai"
    • Upvotes: 3,541
    • Comments: 369
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[–] AmbiguousProps 9 points 3 months ago

This seems more like lonely people being exploited and less of an "addiction"

[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm old, but how are they getting addicted? It seems like it's chatgpt with a costume wardrobe.

Also pretty sure some have a human in the loop, since I got called a troll and a fool by the AI when I tried to find the limits of one LLM character

[–] pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I got called a troll and a fool by the AI when I tried to find the limits of one LLM character

That's probably because of the material being used as training data. There are countless of times where I chat with certain bots and while the initial conversations were colorful, it eventually devolves into generic LLM-esque repetition

[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Ahhh yeah makes sense