# Do LLM-played characters keep their voice over a long dialogue, how is drift measured, and what do the authors say it converges to?

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Three open-access papers measure drift without human raters in the main loop. Li et al. (arXiv 2402.10962v4) report instruction drift within eight rounds of two-chatbot self-chat using code-based probes. Luz de Araujo et al. (arXiv 2512.12775v2, EACL 2026 per abstract) run over 100-round dialogues with eight RoleBench characters across seven models and report that fidelity (knowledge, style, in-character consistency) falls and persona behaviour reverts toward a no-persona baseline. Abdulhai et al. (arXiv 2511.00222v1) show that a line-to-line consistency metric can rise while prompt consistency falls. The judge validations are small or single-rater.

Three open-access papers measure drift without human raters in the main loop. Li et al. (arXiv 2402.10962v4) report instruction drift within eight rounds of two-chatbot self-chat using code-based probes. Luz de Araujo et al. (arXiv 2512.12775v2, EACL 2026 per abstract) run over 100-round dialogues with eight RoleBench characters across seven models and report that fidelity (knowledge, style, in-character consistency) falls and persona behaviour reverts toward a no-persona baseline. Abdulhai et al. (arXiv 2511.00222v1) show that a line-to-line consistency metric can rise while prompt consistency falls. The judge validations are small or single-rater.

Curator qualifications: Drift without human raters: instruction drift within eight self-chat rounds; fidelity declines over 100-round dialogues (EACL 2026 per abstract).

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Three open-access papers measure drift without human raters in the main loop. Li et al. (arXiv 2402.10962v4) report instruction drift within eight rounds of two-chatbot self-chat using code-based probes. Luz de Araujo et al. (arXiv 2512.12775v2, EACL 2026 per abstract) run over 100-round dialogues with eight RoleBench characters across seven models and report that fidelity (knowledge, style, in-character consistency) falls and persona behaviour reverts toward a no-persona baseline. Abdulhai et al. (arXiv 2511.00222v1) show that a line-to-line consistency metric can rise while prompt consistency falls. The judge validations are small or single-rater. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://arxiv.org/html/2402.10962v4

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