According to the Character.AI blog, Character.AI has released a comprehensive roadmap outlining future developments and strategic goals aimed at improving user experience. The initiative focuses on a number of key areas, including safety measures, improved communication skills, community engagement and service reliability.
Increased safety
Character.AI is implementing a series of safety features to provide a safe environment for all users. This includes a separate AI model with stricter guidelines for users under 18, improved detection and response systems for violations of our Terms of Service, and reminders that AI is not a real person. The platform also notifies users after prolonged use through custom controls for adults.
Conversational AI Advances
Character.AI is committed to improving natural language understanding and generation. The roadmap highlights plans to push the boundaries of memory and context, increase the quality of dialogue, and improve character consistency and storytelling immersion.
User feedback and new features
Feedback from the community plays an important role in Character.AI’s development process. The company plans to introduce more mechanisms for users to request and vote on new features, building on popular existing features like edit buttons and personas. Although not all suggestions may be implemented, we are focusing on aligning our developments with community preferences.
Community Engagement Initiatives
Character.AI emphasizes building with the community, providing more opportunities for user interaction and feedback. This includes increased communication through community announcements, events such as contests and feedback sessions, and an exclusive Creator Club for active users and creators.
Strengthening service stability
Service reliability is the cornerstone of user experience. Character.AI has made significant progress in reducing outages and improving scalability. Future initiatives include improving service observability, standardizing incident response, and implementing metrics to track performance, with the goal of further reducing downtime and waiting periods.
User Engagement and Feedback
Character.AI encourages active user participation in shaping the future. Users can participate in community discussions on platforms like Discord and Reddit, test new features by participating in beta programs, and provide feedback through designated channels.
Character.AI’s roadmap emphasizes its commitment to transparency and innovation. As the company looks forward to evolving its conversational AI experience together with its users, ongoing support and feedback from the community is critical to the company’s development.
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