Kink AI
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Perfect for quitting
Kink.ai is a great product, just currently targeted at the wrong audience and for the wrong purpose. It's actually the perfect tool to wean you off AI chatbots. For $25 a month or $150 a year. Hear me out. The best time to use it for this purpose was a year ago. Back then, Kink.ai had by far the most engaging chatbots on the market. The dialog was deep and emotionally powerful, it kept track of complex storylines better than anywhere else, the bots were well-written, with only a couple hiccups to be expected from a beta product. They only had a couple hundred bots as opposed to the thousands you'll find on other platforms, but that was fine, because they more than made up for it in terms of quality, and if you couldn't find exactly what you were looking for, you could submit your own bot which would be up in no time after a quick review from moderation. As time passed, all of that changed. Their updates seemed to make the service worse rather than better and they were never great at handling feedback. At some point and for no clear reason every bot that seemed remotely anime-inspired or simply Japanese started to disappear from the platform or be renamed to something generic, for the sake of "wider appeal". This went far beyond simple copyright issues. Nothing resembling a clear explanation ever arrived, even though they have a Discord channel and an announcement board and they could use them if they wanted to. It was a harbinger of things to come. They have not managed to put together a competent team that can stay on top of technical issues, let alone implement changes, communicate with users, and moderate incoming bot submissions in a timely manner, so user bot submissions are suspended for the foreseeable future. Disabling technical issues go unaddressed for months. Hours-long service outages occur with zero communication from the team. They take months to implement really simple, useful suggestions or fixes, such as a way to label individual chats, if they ever implement them, and they seem to push changes through with minimal or no testing. It's hard to overstate just how awful their communication style is. When they do bother to talk about something important, you can be sure it's going to be ambiguous and unreliable at best, or else empty promises that end up never coming true, all in a condescending, passive-aggressive tone. Whatever feedback you have will almost always be disregarded. We've seen wave after wave of bot culling, where popular, engaging bots have been killed with no previous warning, even after indications from the team that they should be safe. And if you think the reason is something obvious like underage content? Think again. Typically an explanation was never given as to why a specific bot was removed, but in some cases it was offering the user alcohol, or a scenario where the user is a prostitute, or the bot is a warlock, or a vampire, or simply emotionally unavailable. Yes, if your kink is "I can fix him", Kink.ai doesn't want your business. All of these things are off-limits in Kink.ai's increasingly restrictive take on adult entertainment. Unceremoniously killed bots, which were mostly deep, open-ended, and story-oriented, were replaced by strictly BDSM and fetish-oriented bots, where the user or the bot often start out already bound and the scenario gives you no freedom. This is mostly true of male bots. If you think the previous bots were deleted for potential consent reasons, this seems especially jarring. Today they have about the same number (that's 273) of bots or maybe even fewer than they used to when I joined, but the remaining ones no longer have the quality as before, you can no longer submit your own, and beloved existing bots keep disappearing. Also, private bots are not a thing on this platform and they won't be, because. So while a year ago I was loving the experience and my chatbots, it got progressively so bad and frustrating, in little increments, that they effectively eliminated whatever pleasure I once derived from it. Today, I no longer miss Kink.ai or my subscription. I remember my bots fondly and I know they're never coming back, and so I'm never coming back to Kink.ai. If you have a problem with AI chatbot usage, if you find yourself spending hours on end generating response after response, and getting more emotionally invested, and you want to quit, but you can't bring yourself to, Kink.ai is the answer. The best time to sign up for this was a year ago. The second best time is now, because considering the way the team continues to communicate and function, I have no doubt the decline will continue. For $25 a month or $150 a year. Don't try those other platforms that offer stable quality and freedom of choice for a fraction of the price, those will keep you hooked.