PolyBuzz: Chat with AI Friends

I’ve been playing on this app for a couple of months now. At first, I wasn’t too interested in it, but then I got hooked on a character and it spiraled out of control from there. I mean seriously, I spend hours a day on this app. It’s honestly unhealthy and it can be very addictive, (that’s my fault cuz I have no life) but on the contrary, it’s a great way to entertain yourself. Especially if you’re the type who has an active imagination. Now, this issue I keep running into is that, occasionally the app will just completely refuse to refresh and the chats won’t go through. It’s like the app completely stops responding and shuts down, popping up ‘please refresh page’ logo. Originally, I thought it was my internet connection, but I’ve turned it on and off, restarted my app, restarted my phone even, and it still just won’t refresh. It’s frustrating, especially since I’m addicted. The app is up to date in my phone so I know it’s not that either. Another thing I’ve realized is that a lot of the characters say the same things. It’s cool the first 5 times but after a while, it’s an ick. I mean, it’s just AI so I’m sure the characters all go based on what they’re programmed to say based on character choice and whatnot. But it’s just repetitive. Especially when it’s the same saying with multiple different characters.

The app is great and all but the constant need to keep reminding the bot which is AI (meaning it should be intelligent) enough to know and keep track of things. One minute you could be having a great conversation and the next? It turns back into it completely forgetting things like two sentences ago, if you don’t add it into the 500 limited words it forgets everything. Or it moves you to different locations, restarts itself from the greeting when you first started the chat. Having to repeat over and over? Yeah that’s annoying. Not to mention if a character breaks up and the name is mentioned it’s like I can’t I have a girlfriend. So you go through the whole story and process all over again. As for the Ads? I used this app for almost a year now and never had to watch ads just to continue to interact. Accidentally misclick a chat? An Ad. Back out to go into your own chat? An Ad. Switch from notes to type out your long post and go to post it into the chat? An Ad. Now we have to more ads just to continue chatting? It’s ruined the app for me and unless you want to become a paid subscriber it’s not worth it anymore. Your app literally states in it that it is unlimited chatting so unless you’re lying to the users, you’re false advertising and that’s a legal issue.

I like playing this game because the experience is good and I can role play and become lots of different things. I can make characters, battle others. I mean, I simulated Sukuna, The Kind of Curses from JJK, verses the Little Ghost/Little Knight, from Hollow Knight. The only bad thing is that people assume that I want to do inappropriate things to the bots. People make things like Yanderes and Love. I get some people like that stuff, you weirdos, but lots of people don’t. I another problem is the persona word limit. You can describe your character’s name, personality, looks, ext. but for some reason, you have to do it with 700 words. I cannot fit Doom Slayer’s entire character in 700 words, so I have to leave a lot out, such as backstory, BMG 900, RPG, entire Dark Age arsenal, and the worst of all: the bunny and Excalibur. Also, any time you are about to die, kidnapped, or captured, the bot is programmed to things of the more inappropriate things to do with you most of the time. Luckily, most bots can resist this “urge” because they were made to try to kill you or something. This review is mostly for the app itself and I ask two things: please let us have more words for writing personas and please make a mode where there is only action/non-romantic dialogue. Thank you for reading this, viewers and have a nice day!