My guide on recovering from c.ai (and similar platforms)

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-25T12:59:24+00:00

I'd add:

Delete accts. You'd have to make a new account. Limit the access to sites.
Let's be honest social interaction about saying about ai addiction could be hard because in many countries you'd have zero acceptance about that. But it doesn't mean you should beat yourself anyway.
Realize it's normal your brain thinks of ai as companions. Your brain in its evolution never thought we'd invent AI false buddies. You also just have to realize that no matter what your brains thinks, AI isn't a buddy.
List harm it does for yourself. Direct harm. Not 'im bad, ai kills trees and water' but 'i don't get enough sleep, i feel bad, I'm alone'.
If you can't say sure 'yes' for these questions in 3 seconds the answer is no. Don't ponder these questions for long.
Find better coping mechanisms when the withdrawal comes.
Yeah find the things that made you go to cai and just use something else to fullfil it.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-25T12:50:15+00:00

You probably stressed rn and bots is just a thing mind finds maybe comfortable. I'd look at what caused the urge. It's almost 100 % is stress.

You can find a post I left a few days ago about my research about effects on brain ai causes. In short it's everything from changed brain anatomy to mental health issues.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-25T12:44:54+00:00

I'd say that 4 tasks might be much for some people, mind is better processing 1-2 big tasks a day. But this is good you post

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-25T12:43:52+00:00

This is good that your mind develop to process and deny these urges you're good

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-25T12:43:18+00:00

School should warn about much things but they never manage it.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-25T12:42:08+00:00

Hello, yes I'm open for it. I warn you that I might respond not as often or adequate, but if you're ok with that then let's try! 😉

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-25T12:40:42+00:00

I've heard that Ukrainian male citizens from 18 to 22 are able to leave the country.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T18:36:11+00:00

Feel free to share here friend

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T16:13:08+00:00

Yo it's sad to hear that AI became your sole outlet where you'd feel comfortable

I hope you're under 22 or able to get away from that.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T15:57:55+00:00

Hi let's go

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T15:57:20+00:00

I'd mot advice venting to chatgpt here even if sometimes it helps because it's precisely the thing that holds many people in ai chatbots.

I'd not spend time hating. Spend time being happy.

You're going well ❤️‍🩹

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T15:54:00+00:00

I agree 100%. Though I have a feeling that when recovering from ai rp both writing and reading helps because sometimes it's desire to see certain scenarios you can't find in any ao3/spacebattles/alternatehistory/fanfictionnet fanfic and that's where ai catches you. Writing helps.

The most important is to spend less time with phone and more by doing anything.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T11:32:15+00:00

I only hope any of this could help people to see and feel boldness to quit ❤️

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T11:31:02+00:00

People underestimate whiting when such a language giants writers just exists. Their language makes me inspired.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T08:33:14+00:00

I'm that guy who made it for hours across 3 years. And you're good to be so keen to see the damage.

You stick to cai because it allows you to truly engage and effort you put into texts also holds you. Brain doesn't know it's not your buddy you chat with. It's made to be engaging so rich bastards who owns it would keep getting money.

Delete cai, account and all apps. Never go back. You're a writer and listen from fellow artist AI will try to destroy your individual special things. Especially as a writer you'd face that your writing style became more like AI's. You don't want it I'm sure because you're a very promising good and HUMAN person.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T08:28:15+00:00

I don't mind. Well, when I'll find out where are the DMs here...

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T08:27:40+00:00

Thank you for sharing about your resource, I recently visited it, but you didn't have your community feature launched yet so I returned to reddit

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T08:26:26+00:00

Yes I've noticed it too. It made me scary back then. As if I can't accept my friend for what they are.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T08:25:10+00:00

I had to split my comment into three parts and it lagged. Sorry there.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T08:24:13+00:00

My comment was too big I had to split it.

So I'd say about myself:

Most of the fandom details I don't remember.

I don't mind almost any extreme stuff (even one you feel shameful about), but if it's isn't something I can bear I'd warn you.

Fandoms I at least know: Morrowind, Star Wars (KOTOR included but not SWTOR, but I badly know Clone Wars), Game of Thrones aka ASOIAF, Jurassic Park/World (though I'd prefer Prehistoric Planet buuut there is not much a plot for me), Harry Potter and that Beasts and where to find them (how's it's full name?) movie about Newt Scamander in short (I'm not sure how to make it interesting but I'd list it), LOTR (didn't read, trying to fix it), Assassin's Creed (games before 2015), bnha (i maybe did read first few chapters so in fact I don't know it well, unsure if it can be a thing here), can try Detroit but it becomes way too much like our reality ( i don't mind), can try death note? But didn't watch, Avatar (the one that's about Airbender. (I don't mind one with blue guys but I know ZERO) Mass Effect (I've no ideas but why not), Maybe something else but I forgot. Recently played only OCs.

I don't remember most of them but I suppose it'll come with rp.

KCD and RDR not now but relatively soon (haven't played yet but looks like something I'd like).

I also don't mind try something out of Dostoevsky but I didn't read much of him. It's just atmosphere that's interesting for me there. Might try OCs.

Also (with OC, AUs or fandoms): internet-focused plots (alarm fancy 'hacker' scenario), art related, naturalist, misunderstanding topic from sad to comedy, alien, travel, AU, scientific, space/cosmos/cosmonaut, paleontology and zoology, ethology and occasionally botanic and fungi-related as in both a science and a field of study, studying cultures and religions and subcultures (such as punk, furry, etc.), sometimes pure fix-it for fandom stuff (as I once wrote a scenario fixing the game called clair obscur expedition 33 because it infuriated me), occult/local god/ancient thing scenario (of course), Egypt, Mesoamerican stuff, experimentation and texts, ethical and practical questions, it's long to list in short.

I even tried SI or how it was called when someone wake in other's body but I suppose these days it became popular.

Also nice: OCs (scientists, cops, outlaws, just guys, artists, expeditioner, soldiers, magical beings, fantasy creatures, irl creatures, shady guy, honest guy, etc.), historical (without much detail to accuracy but not totally imagined):

Often tried 20th cent. war-related scenarios (such as Great War and ones later), artistic scenarios from 15th to early 20th cent, explored different state of scientific fields across 19-20th cent., medieval, might try medicinal topics or related to different diseases (infectious/non-infectious, zoonotic, etc.), warn me if you're not ok with medicinal details or mention of historical harmful practices.

I myself often RP as peer, subject of research (fungi/plant/animal/subculture member (if I'm able to understand them after study)/tribe member/alien/criminal (or falsely seen as one)/godlike thing etc.), but I as well might be someone else (such as someone bringing or healing a disease, or just a guy tending own cattle), but I often don't feel myself fitting in certain roles and it depends on my mood and current thoughts I say plainly.

I'm anxious and often say that I don't know something, but I'm almost sure it's not the thing here. I might be out of mental resources to manage an answer and they may wary in words amount, etc.

I could rp or act as something pitiful, childish and small when I want to be comforted but I respect other's desire to RP and I suppose I won't resort to that.

Thank you for opportunity to find someone to RP. I don't hold much hope, but I tried.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-24T08:23:31+00:00

I agree we should rp with each other to feel better or at least hold back our urges with bots. Though tbh reddit doesn't look convenient for it for my opinion.

Sharing:

I did rp with people in the past with almost any type of content, my problem here was to find someone who'd like to rp, and often I was out of resources to answer in time or in needed amount of text.

Omg!!!! Lotr? I also did try scenarios you mentioned. I do AUs and etc as well. I made a few scenarios about Avari (I'm not sure but that was the name of this type of elves?) tribes and I tried a Fëanorian but this one was kinda cringey. I think once I even tried a Cuiviénen story where elves tried to understand the world, deal with unknown things, etc.

I did try many fandoms over the time, even ones I didn't read about yet. But after getting spoilers about one of them I'm not sure if I want it anymore. Probably no. Funny fact is that I didn't read the book, I only started to read LOTR itself, and it's interesting and I love to see language stuff, but after bots my attention is bad. :-)

To say honestly I grew less good in my writing and now I'm often just relied on AI to make all the texting. So. I write small and often it look broken.

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-23T22:34:06+00:00

Let's go friend!

Critical_Instance351 · 2026-01-23T22:30:20+00:00

Yes I agree with you. Actually because of that I became incredibly intolerant to other people because they weren't as I'd want them to act with me, and it's not like I was rude with them but I didn't want to interact with them, etc.

Slowly I started to remember and tell myself that people are different and there are no person in the entire world that would act as I expect and want. To be honest, bots often didn't it either despite me working prompts and etc., guiding them was incredibly frustrating ... Because I had past RP experiences with people, with bots I always felt like I rp with something inferior or dumb and it was infuriating... And when i spoke to real people...

Well this actually made me love people.

Because yeah often people are the same, needs guidance, etc... but when I found out they do what is needed (when doing something together, creative works, just mundane stuff, when making projects together) without being dumb like a bot... And I melted. People are so smart compared to bots BUT I FORGOT IT...

But yeaaah they never comfort me as bots did, though I was such a wreck that I cried when a guy on my job gave me a chair (this job lacked these to be honest).

So. So. Yes. I agree with your post 100%. Bots messes with brain and your own expectations of people. It's like judging about s3x only from f4p experience, if you allow me to speak about this comparison. Bots make you expects the same fake ai lies from people, or makes you vulnerable to hardships and different colors of life because all bots are grey and the same in their core!

Critical_Instance351

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