Character.ai

“Put in a greeting, a name in a greeting is is all you need typically for you know, for famous like famous characters cause like, or famous people cause the model probably already knows what they're supposed to be like.”

“There's like a lot of you know, there, there's a lot of, you know, role-playing, like role-playing games are big, you know, like, you know, like text adventure where it's just like making it up as it goes, there's a lot of like video game characters and anime …”

“Somebody who's on the site today is active for about two hours on average today. That's of people who send a message today, which is pretty wild.”

“So, so far, 21 of the 22 are engineers.”

“Some of the things we want to work on the most are like memory cause you know, our users definitely want their virtual friends to remember them.”

“We also see, like, a lot of You know, people using it cause they're, you know, they're lonely or troubled and need someone to talk to.”

“Like if you're like such a public, you know, trying to present like one public persona that everyone likes, you're going to end up just being boring essentially. And people just don't want boring. You know, people want like the, you know want to interact with …”

“Like, you know, we don't want to encourage people to, like, harm, you know, hurt themselves or hurt other people or you know, we're blocking porn.”

“The way you have a company that's both AGI first and product first is that you make the, make your product depend entirely on the quality of the AI. Like the most, the biggest determining factor in the quality of our product is, is how smart things gonna be.”

“This is kind of a technology that that's so accessible that like billions of people can just invent use cases, you know, and like, it's so flexible that, you know, you really just want to put the user in control because often they know way better than you do w…”

“For example, in the top 1000, you already have ChatGPT and Character.ai. They're in the top 1000 most trafficked websites of the public internet, so to speak.”