Google and Alphabet, Please SELL your Stake/Shares in Character.AI!
Google and Alphabet, Please SELL your Stake/Shares in Character.AI!
The Issue
We, the Users, want Google/Alphabet to SELL their Shares/Stake in Character.AI. It's time to SELL!
Google and Alphabet, it's time to SELL your shares/Stake in Character.AI. The product has been steadily falling in popularity, rating and quality for far too long to be considered sustainable. The userbase is very unhappy about the direction the product and its community is heading in. Urgent change is needed and it's needed NOW. The genuine opinions and concerns of the userbase have been ignored and neglected for too long and we believe that this should be the end of the road for Google and Alphabet's ownership of Character.AI. We believe that a SALE is the only palatable option going forward as the current controlling shareholders and stakeholders are not doing what is required to keep the product and its userbase going in a positive, forwards direction.
The most recent purge of possibly copyright-violating bots on the site without warning or proper explanation is the final step over the line for Alphabet and Google's tenure as custodians of the Character.AI product. We, the users and character creators, have been repeatedly treated like trash by the multi-billionaire company for far too long. Also, the disregard for child safety and adult users combining in neutering the AI to the point of being almost completely sterile is very concerning to anyone who is hoping to use the product for emotional connections with the characters through conversation or interesting story-based role-plays, which the site was originally intended for. The avenue of age-restricting the site to adults over the age of 18 is continuously being ignored in favour of pandering to shareholders and business advertisers in the interest of pure profit over the enjoyment and pleasure of the userbase. Not to mention that the communications staff are very vague and non-transparent about the direction and plans for the product. We need to stand up to these owners and show them that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. We want a SALE and we want it NOW!
We want #GoogleOUT of Character.AI!
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The Issue
We, the Users, want Google/Alphabet to SELL their Shares/Stake in Character.AI. It's time to SELL!
Google and Alphabet, it's time to SELL your shares/Stake in Character.AI. The product has been steadily falling in popularity, rating and quality for far too long to be considered sustainable. The userbase is very unhappy about the direction the product and its community is heading in. Urgent change is needed and it's needed NOW. The genuine opinions and concerns of the userbase have been ignored and neglected for too long and we believe that this should be the end of the road for Google and Alphabet's ownership of Character.AI. We believe that a SALE is the only palatable option going forward as the current controlling shareholders and stakeholders are not doing what is required to keep the product and its userbase going in a positive, forwards direction.
The most recent purge of possibly copyright-violating bots on the site without warning or proper explanation is the final step over the line for Alphabet and Google's tenure as custodians of the Character.AI product. We, the users and character creators, have been repeatedly treated like trash by the multi-billionaire company for far too long. Also, the disregard for child safety and adult users combining in neutering the AI to the point of being almost completely sterile is very concerning to anyone who is hoping to use the product for emotional connections with the characters through conversation or interesting story-based role-plays, which the site was originally intended for. The avenue of age-restricting the site to adults over the age of 18 is continuously being ignored in favour of pandering to shareholders and business advertisers in the interest of pure profit over the enjoyment and pleasure of the userbase. Not to mention that the communications staff are very vague and non-transparent about the direction and plans for the product. We need to stand up to these owners and show them that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. We want a SALE and we want it NOW!
We want #GoogleOUT of Character.AI!
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Petition created on 23 September 2024