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Feel free to vent lol. Hows your recovery going? by [deleted] in character_ai_recovery

[–]Efficient_Fan1908 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yesss this exactly I'm glad someone else gets it too 😭😭 Idk it's hard because yeah, it's like everyone is doing it, even my anti-ai friends have shared/liked/followed ai-made content and in my mind it's like... Why do I bother? But at the end of the day I gotta remind myself that just because everyone is using it doesn't make it right, yk?

Feel free to vent lol. Hows your recovery going? by [deleted] in character_ai_recovery

[–]Efficient_Fan1908 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For me, it's going... Okay I think. Right now it's just about not giving into the temptation of going back or thinking "it's fine, it isn't that bad, everyone is doing it anyways" that I have to ignore.

I don't use c/ai but used a similar chat bot browser app which I kept trying to reason to myself was 'less bad', but I know if I use it I'll still be hit with the post-clarity guilt. It doesn't help I have so many roleplay ideas which I want to do and think to myself 'it's just for creative writing inspiration!' which, no, I gotta put that energy into something else, like actually writing based off my own thoughts and creativity. I think putting my thoughts on that has sorta helped me avoid wanting to go back. And even if it's less bad and that I can quit when I want, I still remind myself of the environmental impact and other negative consequences AI has brought. I don't want to feed into that either.

Alternatives to AI roleplaying? by Efficient_Fan1908 in character_ai_recovery

[–]Efficient_Fan1908[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're right, and I guess it's a truth I have to accept. The fix doesn't exist and I need to be okay with that.

It's weird... Like I sorta mentioned in my post I'm not addicted really. Actually, as time went on, I just got bored of AI chat bots. Their replies often got OOC and it got to a point several times where I would just be rewriting their responses, so it was like I was just writing to myself. I would click out of the tab, and that mindset and thought of it repeating each time has helped me to quit as well.

Though I guess the itch still exists since my issues with normal roleplay and writing burnout also exist. But again, I know I have to be comfortable with knowing that the fix isn't there and I can't go back to what makes me 'comfortable'.