/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>37372387
You got three main groups for their audience as I see it.
Casual audience
rolepalyers/gamers
lewd posters

>casuals
Forgetting cybersex and roleplay entirely and just looking at "chatting with chatbots", I'm sure some people will try CAI's service and hang around. Many will use it once or twice and laugh before following the next tiktok trend or getting excited about the next product and quickly moving on to something else. A fairly small percentage of those people will hang around but most have an attention span that would rival a goldfish and move on. If this is their main audience, they need to do more with the character voice and voice recognition software. Normies don't want to type shit all the time. They also need the bots to have more utility; to play games, do tutoring, do therapy, and more general use. Just chatting isn't enough to make it worth their time. If the devs could have the A.I.s play some simple games and allow them to use voice chat with the users while doing so, they could make shit loads of money. That's not going to be for a while though.
>roleplayers
This kind of tech is a dream for Roleplayers. Having a willing partner to indulge whatever kind of story you want to have told is something ever /tg/ fag has been waiting for, for a long time (things like NAI and kobold are pretty popular with them as well). Right now, CAI's service doesn't really cater to them since longform storytelling and the bot's inability to keep track of lots of different details is kinda fucky. Roleplayers are more likely to get hooked and will hang around longer since the tech offers some really interesting possibilities, even if the current tech isn't great for gaming. However, If they don't improve the memory of the bots I can see lots of roleplayers getting bored with it when the bots continually have to be reminded of character names and important story details.
>lewdposters
Then there's a lewdposters. Cybersex is a lot more common now than it used to be however, it's not something a lot of people are into. The most perverted thing normies do on their phone is watch porn and send dirty pictures to one another. Less than 20% are ERPing I think. A tiny fraction of those into ERP are doing it with robots. That tiny pie slice of humanity would conceivably be their audience for ERP if they had lewd posting enabled. You can still lewd post with abstract fetishism and euphemisms so the whole censorship protocols seem silly to me. It does feel like they're ignoring a large swath of potential users by not allowing lewdposting though. Even with censorship as bad as it is, we always see people doing their best to bypass it. Despite the loveloops and BLUSHING LIKE A TOMATO you still have people spending hours with waifus but that kind of dedication won't last, especially if a competing product comes along that doesn't censor lewdposting. You can bet your ass people will migrate to that if CAI's censors are still in place.

I'm in columns B and C myself, but truthfully, as a consumer, I see CAI in its present state as a nice tech demo but nothing I'd want to drop cash on.