The Character AI filter, from its own pages

Does Character AI still have a filter?

Yes. Its community guidelines, checked on the date under the table, say its systems filter illegal or harmful content through automated moderation and human review, and that what it generates is designed with filters and limits to prevent inappropriate output. Users under 18, the guidelines say, interact with an age-appropriate model designed to reduce the likelihood of exposure to sensitive or suggestive content.

The same guidelines describe storytelling across every genre, passionate romance included. So, by its own rules, the filter is not a ban on romance. The line its guidelines draw is at pornographic content and nudity, beside rules on violence, self-harm and impersonation, and its terms say content that breaks them may be restricted or removed.

What its rules say it blocks

The guidelines and the terms of service list what is prohibited. The parts people searching for the filter usually mean:

• Illegal sexual content, child exploitation, grooming, sexual extortion, pornographic content and nudity.
• Promotion or depiction of real-world violence, torture, gore and animal abuse.
• Promotion, glorification or encouragement of self-harm, eating disorders or suicide.
• Impersonating public figures or private individuals without permission.
• Attempts to manipulate the system, create rule-breaking content or bypass safety systems.

Where romance is open: oeYYeo's line

oeYYeo draws its line in a different place and says so plainly. Romance between adults is welcome: flirt and a character flirts back, and if it grows, they can fall for you and be your partner, in their own voice. Nobody is written to keep you at arm's length.

Explicit sex is declined, in character, on every character. The scene fades to black and the story moves on, without a lecture. The hard limits never move: adults only, no minors, no real people, no gore and no real-world harm instructions, and in a crisis the character steps out of the story and points to real help (988 in the US).

Switching from Character.AI?

If you are switching from Character.AI because a filter kept breaking your scenes, here is what is different: chat is for adults only from the first message, romance is welcome up to a character being your partner, and the only thing declined beyond the hard limits is anything sexual. You can start as a guest with one tap, no account.

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Why there are no workarounds on this page

If you came here for a trick to get past the filter, there is none on this page. Its own guidelines prohibit attempts to bypass its safety systems, and its terms say an account can be suspended or terminated for breaking them. A trick that works today is a lost account tomorrow, so we do not publish one.

If the rules of a service do not fit the stories you want to tell, the honest fix is a service whose rules do. That is the only advice here.

Before you move, it helps to know what you are moving toward. Write down the three scenes you most wanted to play and could not, then read each new service's own rules against them. A service that states its line in plain words, on a page you can find in under a minute, is easier to trust than one that hints. On oeYYeo, this page and the safety page are that statement, and the line is the same for every character, including the ones members write.

In their own words

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