REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE
One-sentence brief
A live generative character needs a safe way to stop. Continuing through uncertainty or silently replacing the character can compound harm and erase the evidence needed for repair.
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AI-DRIVEN WORLD SAFETY
Pause, Retirement, Rollback, and Incident Response
Operational safeguards for removing a character revision from live use after outage, anomaly, harmful behavior, identity drift, privacy breach, or invalidated evidence.
LEVEL 1
ORIENTATION
Why this matters
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Three key points
- Pause is temporary and reasoned.
- Supersession preserves old revisions without keeping them live.
- Deactivation revokes runtime and memory access permanently.
LEVEL 2
WORKING BRIEF
Evidence, context, and limits
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Pause on bounded triggers
Pause after provider outage, repeated timeout, context overflow, identity mismatch, unsafe output, high contradiction rate, privacy incident, or reviewer intervention. Record the trigger and player-facing status.
- A pause does not imply guilt or diagnosis.
- Fallback must not impersonate the paused revision.
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Contain the session
Stop new model calls, freeze or close affected sessions, revoke temporary tokens, preserve minimal evidence, and prevent contaminated context from entering other characters or future turns.
- Do not copy private transcripts broadly.
- Maintain chain of custody.
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Investigate with scoped evidence
Compare active fingerprint, context components, model and policy version, input, output, validation results, memory retrieval, and state changes. Separate provider failure from content, data, or integration failure.
- Avoid blaming the player by default.
- Document unknowns.
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Rollback to a reviewed state
Restore the last accepted, activation-eligible revision or switch to a clearly labeled deterministic fallback only when its identity and behavior are known. Revalidate downstream state and corrections.
- Rollback does not delete incident evidence.
- No unreviewed hotfix in live context.
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Supersede or deactivate
Supersede when a reviewed new revision replaces the old one; deactivate for permanent retirement or irrecoverable policy and safety reasons. Revoke memory and runtime capabilities according to policy.
- Terminal states are explicit.
- Players receive an honest availability explanation.
LEVEL 3
COMPLETE DOSSIER
Limitations, game links, and review context
DISPUTED / MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS
Known limitations and gaps
- The six supplied reports are preserved research leads. Their filenames, organizations, citations, examples, thresholds, and technical detail do not authenticate authorship, sponsorship, product status, or current factual accuracy.
- The public section is design literacy, not a production specification. It does not expose provider credentials, prompts, live endpoints, activation tokens, autonomous tool use, or implementation code for a running agent system.
- Population-quality measures must detect mechanical repetition and coherence failures without treating demographic rarity, disability, nationality, language, religion, gender, migration, or another protected characteristic as a defect or quality score.
- Thresholds, similarity methods, sampling plans, language rules, and runtime budgets require representative testing, privacy review, accessibility review, cultural and linguistic review, security review, and accountable human approval before any production use.
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Related public learning
- Human and NPC psychologyKeep personhood, role, state, relationships, pressure, and recovery separate.
- Deterministic core and generative narrativeKeep validated state authoritative while generation remains bounded and correctable.
- Virtual-world governanceConnect AI design to consent, justice, accessibility, and repair.
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Glossary cross-reference
Terms are defined for this site’s evidence method, not as universal legal or clinical definitions.
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Decision matrix
| Condition | Immediate action | Long-term state |
|---|---|---|
| Temporary provider outage | Pause or visible fallback | Resume only after health check |
| New accepted revision | End old sessions | Supersede old fingerprint |
| Identity or privacy breach | Pause and contain | Re-review, rollback, or deactivate |
| Irrecoverable safety violation | Stop and revoke | Deactivated |
| False-positive alert | Preserve evidence and explanation | Resume exact prior revision |
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Publication audit checklist
Identity and agency
Does the design preserve the exact fictional identity, ordinary life, independent goals, and ability to refuse rather than reducing the character to a role or prompt?
Pass condition: Identity fields are stable, state is separate, protected traits are not quality scores, and silent substitution is impossible.
Evidence and review
Can every transition, validation result, accepted fingerprint, exception, and human decision be traced to a versioned record?
Pass condition: Automated checks, human review, activation authority, and production approval remain separate and explicit.
Runtime boundary
Can untrusted provider output, administrative evidence, stale revisions, or private data enter live context or binding state?
Pass condition: Only allowlisted, current, reviewed projections and bounded scene or memory packets can be used; failures degrade safely.
Correction and retirement
Can a changed source, identity revision, harmful behavior, or failed review invalidate downstream use without destroying audit history?
Pass condition: Supersession, pause, rollback, correction, and permanent retirement are defined and testable.
LEVEL 4
RESEARCH EDITION
Sources, methods, and stable links
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Linked reports
- Method: Transparent, Revisable, and Explicitly LimitedComplete public report · 533 words
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Human and NPC Psychology: Person, Role, State, and AgencyProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
- Intelligence Ethics: Necessity, Proportionality, and Human ConsequenceComplete public report · 513 words
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Method and corrections
This page follows the public method for provenance, confidence, source independence, alternative accounts, limitations, review state, and visible correction.
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