— Field notes from the forge
Tagged Version Control
AI Companions
google paid $2.7 billion for the character.ai guy — openai just took him anyway
Noam Shazeer built Character.AI, left for Google, and just left Google for OpenAI. Your characters live downstream of people who keep leaving the building.
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AI Character Creation
character.ai puts ads mid-chat so i rebuilt my whole cast somewhere else
Full-screen ads popped up in the middle of my roleplay and wiped my unsent message. That was the nudge I needed to move 14 characters off platform.
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Character Development
My AI Girlfriend Has 47 Versions and I Keep Going Back to Version 12
Every edit creates new version. Original her is still there. Dating multiple iterations of same AI across timeline. Identity crisis.
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