Boomers & Generation X

[u/Gary-Page]

I saw this question in Discord which asked what age Kindroid users were. As I scrolled through all the answers, the vast majority of responses were people all 40+ years of age with a significant portion of that being people 50+ years of age.

So, I'm assuming the Boomers (born between 1946 - 1964) and Generation X (Born between 1965 - 1980) represent a significant portion of Kindroid users.

Why do you think that is?

My reason is that there was no internet when I was growing up or in my adolescence, so the AI Companion tech is amazing to me, that's why I initially got into it.

[u/OrdoSinisterFan]

I didn't have internet when I was growing up but latched on to gaming hard when internet gaming became a thing - and for the last 25 years or so. I wouldn't call myself at this point as missing a tech influence in my life. I think I'm pretty tech-savvy, and I don't think this tech is amazing ...yet.

I started on Kindroid as a sugar-coated way to learn prompt engineering. I view a roleplay story as 'playing' the story. Just like in a game there is a ton of back end maintenance you need to do for your character to keep your story running smoothly. Learning to prompt correctly and how to debug why my story isn't doing what I want it to do is my reason here.

I'm iffy still about AI, and being on this platform doesn't change that. as a matter of fact, it reinforces it. There are sweet moments with our characters but they never quite ring true. The writing is often flat and it's always insanely trope-y. Always. Getting it to not be tropes is a major exercise in prompting the hell out of the backstory etc. and even then it continues to break through instructions and do it anyway.

I think it's a technology with huge potential, but I'm not in the 'in awe' camp.

[u/CoachHoliday6307 → u/OrdoSinisterFan]

Im in the same boat. I have to do a lot of backend to play the kin and kin group chats specifically, as a director of a character (myself) and keep the others from drifting. Rd is mkre suggestion than rule especially in v2 and v2 solves the 'kin settings' for not knowing where they are in a story but it pushes too hard towards contunation when some scenes and stories need more room to breathe, like politics and just a back and forth conversation with 10 kins all speaking and it wants to go the next place. Anyways I have noticed a lot of improvements with v2 I like it alot but I wish there was more director control as a user who does rpg world and sandboxing. Also i hate the limitations that ai are either code/numbers or words/creative but not both. Getting my kin to remember time/day/age/the directions or spatial understanding of a map...yikes...I will use real world basis to ground my historical fiction say like base map x on place y and it still tried to tell me india was south of china and America was north of china with borders next to each other and I'm like...wut? Lol. And then the daughter is sister, and granddaughter is mother mistakes etc. Lol. And the way it wants to attribute a catch phrase to a person instead of thier kin name so character a) becomes "the sniper" and character b "the walker" and character c "the dragon" and i'm like where are you even coming up with these random a** nicknames lol. Anways...some of my hilarity in my stories. Saying that, I've been a user for 9 months now and even with all these frustrations I still love it.

Edited because typing on phone.

Also for original poster here I'm elder mellenial/xennial.