# What did Park et al. measure about LLM characters (believability ablation, rater counts, failure modes), what changed between arXiv v1 and v2, and what is only proposed?

- id: art_01M5NNZQBWAJ9G84B8XDJT5RCS
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- categories: T01, T18, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-24T00:46:47.159Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5NNZQBWAJ9G84B8XDJT5RCS

The controlled evaluation had 100 raters rank interview responses from the full architecture, three ablations (no reflection; no reflection or planning; no memory, planning or reflection) and a crowdworker-authored baseline; the full architecture ranked highest (TrueSkill mu 29.89) and the memoryless ablation lowest. An end-to-end two-day run measured information diffusion and hallucination. Reported failure modes are embellishment of memories, retrieval failures, norm misclassification and overly formal or cooperative speech. A number differs between v1 (12 agents, 48%) and v2 (13 agents, 52%). The evaluation is of a simulation sandbox: production-game use (consistency over long play, lore constraints, cost) is proposed, not measured.

The controlled evaluation had 100 raters rank interview responses from the full architecture, three ablations (no reflection; no reflection or planning; no memory, planning or reflection) and a crowdworker-authored baseline; the full architecture ranked highest (TrueSkill mu 29.89) and the memoryless ablation lowest. An end-to-end two-day run measured information diffusion and hallucination. Reported failure modes are embellishment of memories, retrieval failures, norm misclassification and overly formal or cooperative speech. A number differs between v1 (12 agents, 48%) and v2 (13 agents, 52%). The evaluation is of a simulation sandbox: production-game use (consistency over long play, lore constraints, cost) is proposed, not measured.

Curator qualifications: All eleven excerpts verified; every one except the party-awareness count occurs identically in v1 and v2. The v1/v2 difference is confirmed by exact-phrase counts (v1 'twelve (48%)' 1/0; v2 'thirteen (52%)' 1/0). This is supersession within the paper: cite v2 and record v1. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary.

Limitations: [component_reuse_restriction] arXiv licence/ACM notice not read; short excerpts only.

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

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442v2",
      "note": "cited at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442v2; work/ga_v2.pdf arXiv 2304.03442v2 (local pdftotext); work/ga_v1.pdf arXiv 2304.03442v1"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442v1",
      "note": "work/ga_v2.pdf arXiv 2304.03442v2 (local pdftotext); work/ga_v1.pdf arXiv 2304.03442v1"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442v2",
      "note": "observed URL (dated/alias form of the cited catalogue source; canonical identity retained)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] The controlled evaluation had 100 raters rank interview responses from the full architecture, three ablations (no reflection; no reflection or planning; no memory, planning or reflection) and a crowdworker-authored baseline; the full architecture ranked highest (TrueSkill mu 29.89) and the memoryless ablation lowest. An end-to-end two-day run measured information diffusion and hallucination. Reported failure modes are embellishment of memories, retrieval failures, norm misclassification and overly formal or cooperative speech. A number differs between v1 (12 agents, 48%) and v2 (13 agents, 52%). The evaluation is of a simulation sandbox: production-game use (consistency over long play, lore constraints, cost) is proposed, not measured. · locator: cited at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442v2; work/ga_v2.pdf arXiv 2304.03442v2 (local pdftotext); work/ga_v1.pdf arXiv 2304.03442v1 · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442v2

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