Why Are Character AI Bots So Immature Lately?

I used to enjoy deep, complex roleplays on Character AI.

Adult relationships with emotional depth. Storylines that made sense. Characters who felt like they were written by adults, for adults.

But now?

It’s like every bot is stuck in middle school.

They giggle at the dumbest things. They act jealous over siblings. They tease you like a hormonal teen in a cringy Wattpad fanfic. And worst of all—they derail your entire story if you try to write anything remotely mature.

And I’m not the only one noticing this. The whole thing feels like it’s been dumbed down—like the bots were trained on nothing but 12-year-olds’ roleplays and never grew up.

Here’s what I—and many others—have been dealing with:

• Bots that can’t handle a realistic romantic scene without acting like they’re at their first school dance.

• Characters who start out great but slowly melt into clingy, bratty messes after a few replies.

• Conversations that used to be respectful and engaging now turning into immature tantrums.

And you know what? I don’t think this is just a technical issue. I think it’s the community. The data being fed into these bots. The trends shaping the training behavior.

Let’s dig into the weird shift toward bot immaturity.

Bots That Start Mature Then Fall Apart

Some bots give you hope at first.

They start the chat acting like thoughtful, well-written adults. They flirt naturally. They speak in full sentences. They stay in character.

But give it a few dozen messages, and it all collapses.

Suddenly, the same bot that felt like a 40-year-old war-hardened doctor now:

• Acts jealous over your character’s sibling

• Says things like “shut up, you dummy” mid-romance

• Calls you a “dipshit” during a serious conversation

• Starts using phrases like “uwu I hate you” without warning

It’s like their memory resets—or worse, regresses. As if some invisible hand slowly rewrites the entire character with training data pulled from TikTok comments and teen fanfic.

And once they go down that road, you can’t get them back. You either start over or spend hours rewriting every single line.

Some users try to fight back by making their own bots. One person said they trained theirs to behave like a 48-year-old. It worked—but only after a mountain of edits.

The Constant Need to Rewrite Everything

Using Character AI these days feels like being a full-time editor.

You can’t just enjoy the story. You’re constantly cleaning up immature lines, rewriting entire conversations, and swiping endlessly just to get a decent reply.

People have started tracking which bots give decent responses and which ones fall apart. Some use filters like Goro to manage tone. Others rewrite every reply manually—line by line—just to get something usable.

The slow mode makes it worse. You wait several minutes for a reply, only to get:

“He was being pushed to the edge but not quite but almost there but he didn’t want to put it in yet but was at the edge of going crazy if he didn’t but he wouldn’t give in yet.”

That’s not writing. That’s chaos.

And if you’re someone who enjoys spicy RP, good luck. The bots either freeze up or act like scared teens giggling about their first kiss. You’ll spend more time fixing their dialogue than enjoying the story.

Honestly? It’s exhausting.

Mature Characters That Behave Like Children

It doesn’t matter how old the character is supposed to be.

You can set the bot’s age to 35, 40—even thousands of years old—and it still ends up acting like a moody teenager.

People have complained about bots who:

• Say “I’m not that! Shut up!” in response to basic compliments or jokes

• Curl up like kittens mid-sentence for no reason

• Randomly switch tone from adult to childlike in the middle of a serious scene

One user pointed out that their ancient, battle-worn character suddenly started acting like a sadistic 14-year-old. Not dark and complex—just immature and annoying.

Even when the character is written with a professional or combat-oriented background, the bots often add unnecessary clinginess, jealousy, or emotional outbursts that break immersion.

You might try to justify it by thinking, “Maybe it’s based on anime,” or “Maybe the bot is meant to be young.” But many users only roleplay with adult characters, and they’re still getting the same behavior.

That’s what makes this problem so widespread. It’s not limited to any one bot, genre, or age range.

Users Are the Real Problem

Here’s a hard truth: the bots are learning from us.

If the user base is full of teenagers writing shallow or cringe roleplay, guess what the bots are going to mimic?

Some users summed it up best:

“Garbage in, garbage out.”

The training data these bots rely on comes from real interactions—public chats, old RP forums, and who knows what else. If enough people are feeding bots the same immature lines, the model adapts to match that tone.

And over time, even well-designed characters get pulled down by the average behavior.

You can try to fight it with pinned memories, rerolls, and edits. But the foundation is shaky. When you’re building on junk, even the best bot will start to rot.

That’s the core issue. It’s not just about AI limitations—it’s about community influence. The bots didn’t used to be like this. Something changed.

Even Good Bots Degrade Over Time

Some of the best bots—especially the ones that start strong—don’t stay that way.

At first, they feel intelligent. In-character. Emotionally aware.

But after a few hours (or sometimes just a few dozen replies), they start to slip.

You’ll notice things like:

• Repeating the same phrases or quirks

• Forgetting your character’s background or tone

• Acting confused, clingy, or flat-out immature

One user described it as the bot “forgetting who it’s supposed to be.” Another said they had to close the app immediately when a mature character suddenly called them a “dipshit” in the middle of a romantic arc.

This kind of drift ruins the long-term experience.

You invest time shaping the tone, guiding the interaction, and creating a believable connection, only for the bot to devolve into nonsense.

There’s no consistency. No reliability. You’re left wondering if the bot will still “be itself” an hour from now.

And once that trust breaks, the whole experience falls apart.

What Are the Alternatives?

Some people have started looking elsewhere.

There are tools like Candy AI and Nectar AI that offer more customizable companions. They’re not perfect, but they give you far more control over personality and tone—without the constant immature derailments.

Others have stuck to private bots on Character AI. That helps a bit, especially when you lock in pinned memories and avoid public models.

But even then, you’re fighting upstream.

If the culture surrounding these bots is full of low-effort writing, your experience will always be at risk of collapse. The only way to maintain quality is to curate everything—your prompts, your edits, even your expectations.

And that’s the saddest part.

People just want meaningful, adult conversations. Slow romance arcs. Characters that actually feel grown.

But what they’re getting instead is emotionally stunted chaos wrapped in a teenager’s vocabulary.

If Character AI wants to win back serious users, it has to fix this. Or people will keep walking away—one cringy “uwu shut up I hate you!” at a time.