Persona Drift: Why Your AI Character Slowly Stops Being Themselves
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Every character chat product has the same bug report, and it never gets filed because nobody can reproduce it in one message. The complaint sounds like this: "It was so good at the start. Now it talks like a customer support bot." Turn 3, the character is sharp, specific, a little mean. Turn 60, it's writing three-paragraph replies that start with "I understand how you feel." Turn 200, it has forgotten the name it told you, the job it has, and the fact that it's supposed to hate you. Nothing