I didn't believe it at first, but i think this app is doomed.
It's been over two weeks since it all went down. And i am honestly shocked. I thought that it'd be another temporary issue and that it'd all go back to normal like always, but it isn't. And the situation's looking very grim.
Pipsqueak 2 is an absolutely horrible model. There's no redeeming qualities to it. It spews the same lobotomized gibberish all over again. Repeats the same phrases, and acts like chatGPT rather than thr actual characters. No matter which character you pick, they will ALWAYS behave the same. Saying the same stuff. There's no variety, the bots don't act like the characters anymore. In fact they don't even act like a singular character, because what they say is not even close to being immersive whatsoever. They actually speak like genuine robots now. This entire time before this horrible model, it actually felz real.
What i do not understand whatsoever though was the general decision to remove all the other models in favor of this one. "Pipsqueak 2 for everyone!" As if that's a good thing. Absolutely nobody asked for this. Nobody wanted this. And yet, this is what we got. It wouldn't be an issue if we were to keep all the models. But what we enjoyed got removed entirely, replaced by a cheap copy. But even saying it's a copy would be putting it wrong. It's something completely different. And also worse. Imagine you work in a factory and everybody is making cubes. The workers only know how to make cubes and they are used to making cubes. People only want to buy cubes aswell. Then suddenly, one day the factory owner tells them to make triangles instead. The cubes aren't a thing anymore. Even though the customers only want to buy the cubes. Nobody wants the triangles, nobody knows how to make triangles. But regardless, everybody just makes triangles now. For whatever reason.
That's what confuses me the most. How did this, out of absolutely nowhere, happen? We had our thing, we were used to it, we liked the models, the characters, it actually felt like the characters too, and suddenly, it was just swept away from us. Just an announcement without our agreement. Nobody asked for our opinion. And let's be realistic here, the only way to get the users of this app satisfied again would be to bring back the old models. Since pipsqueak 2 is obviously a huge failure. How did this even happen? What's the reason behind the huge removal?
And lately, though i haven't fact-checked this, i'm hearing about the CEO wanting a completely different direction? About some video and image generation???? This i don't understand either, since there's so many AIs specifically designed for that. There's so much competition. And yet they still choose to go that way? Meanwhile the character bots, which was the ENTIRE point of this site/app, was actually UNIQUE and even started with THIS APP SPECIFICALLY. Why not just stick to the monopoly you have and instead do this?
What baffles me the most though, is why the hell did they decide to change THIS APP specifically. If you have new ideas, why not make a new one? Why not make another one separate from c.ai itself? The SOLE REASON people used this app is because of the character bots. That was what you had given and promised to the entire community, and that's what the ENTIRE community was hooked on, and the only reason they were there. And now that you have that community, you completely erase EVERYTHING they were here for. I, and i bet most of us here, would at least want to know why that happened.
That's all. And if you want to make cheap models to save money and focus on something else that no one cares about, i'm sure you understand that this is not the way to go.