Your Mom is a Bus

"The Wind Recognizes No Fence" 11"x14" acrylic, spray paint, graphite, colored pencil, paint pen on canvas [prints here]

mutual 1: i have to quit my job

mutual 2: i have to quit my job

mutual 3: i have to quit my job

mutual 4: i have to quit my job

mutual 5: i have to quit my job

mutual 6: i have to quit my job

mutual 7: i have to quit my job

mutual 8: need to peel him like a banana

mutual 9: i have to quit my job

None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.

"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.

Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.

Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this: