Unable to Create AI Companion – “Error Creating Character”
Lurenai Resident
My Premium Plus account is active and has open Companion slots
• The destination parcel is owned by me and allows scripted agents
• I have tested this on multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox) and incognito mode
• I have attempted using shortened bios, simple placeholder companions, and different models (GPT-4o, GPT-3.5, LLaMA)
• I have removed any special characters (em-dashes, smart quotes) from all fields
• The error occurs at the final step, after hitting Save—no redirect, just a red bar with “Error creating character”
I’ve also tried temporarily placing the Companion in a sandbox region that allows scripted agents. Still the same error.
I spoke with a support rep who confirmed there were no blocks on my account but could not identify the issue.
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NyxObsidian Resident
I've got a Premium+ Account and I've been trying for weeks to create my first AI Personal Companion. All I get is "Error creating of character." Also, there used to be a "Public AI Bot" available that is no longer an option for some reason. I've put in a Ticket for why the Personal Companion is not working, but if anyone has received an fix to this, I would very much like to know it.
NyxObsidian Resident
After nearly a month of silence from SL Tech Support, this is the response I received, which is of little to no help at all:
Thank you for contacting us about your issue with the Character Designer Alpha, and I'm sorry that you're having difficulty with it. While this program is still in alpha testing, most of the support and development interactions are taking place on our Feedback Portal (https://feedback.secondlife.com/) in the Character Designer subsection specifically. At the moment, we are suggesting that Residents who are testing and experimenting with this new feature for Second Life check our Feedback Forum and to provide details of new bugs and problems they've found, and in many instances Residents have been sharing their tips and workarounds with one another as well.
AmberGrrr Resident
same error here, cannot create
AveKisik Amethyst
I have the same problem, "Error creating character"
Nea Narstrom
I have the same problem but it is my first attempt at creating an AI NPC. I can fill out the page with the background story and then continue to click on, but after I've filled out the next page and entered everything, I just get ERROR CREATING OF CHARACTER
I've already tried it several times yesterday and today. Unfortunately, it is not shown anywhere which part of the form is causing the error, so I'm groping in the dark.
I only have Premium Plus because of this option, because AI NPC could really do an incredible amount of work for me during role-playing campaigns. I therefore hope that the problem can be resolved.
exolife Resident
Yep ran into the same error today. "Error creating character" – tried everything on my end, but nothing worked.
Ailina Resident
Hello, I have the same problem. I also deleted a profile before. The reason for the deletion was that the AI was no longer following a TP (not even a TP that worked before) and the greeting was missing when the AI came online.
Estelle Pienaar
There is another post on this (or a similar) problem already and it was tracked as "in progress" in February as far as I can see:
Lurenai Resident
I’m still unable to even make one character! 🤦🏻♀️ No idea what else to try!
Estelle Pienaar
Lurenai Resident Kuva Nishi angelexe Resident
Maybe contact customer support again and report that there is a problem for premium+ members that deleted their AI character to make new ones. In the beginning of May the AI character system was down for 4 days and since then I have not seen any interaction with posts in the feedback forum. As far as I can tell, no posts have been marked as tracked or in progress. I get the impression that development is paused at the moment. Hopefully this issue can be resolved temporarily like the restart of the AI character system after being down for several days... I keep fingers crossed.
Kuva Nishi
Estelle Pienaar Darcy Linden was on a brief leave, according to Discord, but is now back on the project with development resuming Monday.
Kuva Nishi
My girlfriend found a workaround for this problem. She made a copy of an existing character, and in the account settings (the gear) for that copied character profile, she changed the character's login information to the new alt that she wanted to use instead. It accepted it and she was able to log in with the new character. All that was left was to go in and re-write the copied profile to fit the new character.
angelexe Resident
I was just about to make a updated post to find out if others are having the same problem "Error
Error creating of character".
I only saw this old post from February that you may have seen, (https://feedback.secondlife.com/character-designer/p/error-creating-character), not sure if that was solved, but may be a bug and a Linden has to check our accounts by posting here, I guess.
For me, it has been a few days of waiting to see if it will somehow fix itself.. and trying similar troubleshooting steps as you. I only have 4 profile slots of 20 used that I'm told premium plus can use. Never used more than 5. I deleted my 5th and now can't make it again.
Estelle Pienaar
angelexe Resident Did you also delete an AI character? It seems to be the event that has triggered both other cases (+ all three of you seem to have premium plus accounts).
angelexe Resident
Estelle Pienaar Oh wow. Yes, I recently deleted the first profile that I had since the program started because it seemed broken. It wouldn't speak in nearby, but all the new profiles do.
And I still cannot create another ai character profile. Tried right now.. just to update again when a Linden reads this.
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