The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 11 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
AI Assistants With a Single Neutral Corporate Persona End Up Boring
“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 …”
Character.AI Enforces Filters Blocking Pornography, Violence, and Self-Harm
“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.”
Rauch: ChatGPT and Character.ai are in the top 1,000 most-trafficked websites
“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.”
Active Character.AI Users Spend About Two Hours Per Day on Average
“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.”
Many People Turn to Character.AI for Companionship When Lonely
“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.”
AGI-First Companies Must Make Product Quality Depend Entirely on AI
“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.”
Conversational AI Platforms Should Let Users Define Their Own Use Cases
“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…”
Famous AI Personas Often Only Require a Name and a Greeting
“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.”
RPGs, Anime, and Gaming Personas Dominate Character.AI Usage
“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 …”