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What we learn building characters

Written from the inside: what works, what does not, and what the product actually does when nobody is watching.

One character, every scene: how a face stays the same when nothing else does

A character card, then five moments from the same conversation — a period drama, a cafe, a street in daylight, a room. Different eras, different lighting, different rendering styles. The same person in all of them.

Is an AI girlfriend safe? An honest answer from people running one

The most-typed questions about this category are not about features. They are «what is it», «is it dangerous», «is it legit». Here is what we can answer for our own service — including the parts that are simply true of every AI chat, ours included.

You don't train an AI character. Here is what shapes one instead

«How to train ai chatbot» is the most-connected question in our English keyword data, and for characters it is the wrong frame. The model arrives finished. Everything you actually control is faster, cheaper and reversible.

AI boyfriend vs AI girlfriend: what 37,000 searches actually want

We harvested 37,621 real queries in seventeen languages while rebuilding our pages. The two halves of this category turned out to be different products, wanted by different people — and in one country the words themselves refuse the question.