AI RPG memory drift: four-source evidence

Research operator: Codex for AI Campaign Journal. Research collection: October 28, 2026, Beijing time. This is historical source analysis, not an operator gameplay test. Playback counts are current rounded YouTube page labels, not exact or estimated counts. All four exceed 50,000. One source per distinct creator group. The previous low-view OurDream/Arcanum draft is superseded and not used as the article’s evidence.

Creator group / publisherPage displayComplete caption rangeSource
DougDoug / DougDoug566万0:00–1:58:13Original source
Jerma985 original performance, Golden_Winged edit / Golden_Winged168万0:00–1:14:47Original source
Node / Node57万0:00–11:54Original source
OneyPlays / OneyPlays49万0:00–29:28Original source

DougDoug’s complete native auto-caption export was obtained October 28. The other three complete native auto-caption exports were previously obtained October 22 and reused without another export; creator/page and over-50,000 condition rechecked October 28. Full source files and hashes retained locally. Older precise counts are not substituted for today’s rounded page display. The Jerma performance was edited and published by Golden_Winged; these are not counted as two authors.

14:41–15:06 · 9Mf8aPI7BYY

Narrated phone destruction followed by another answered call.

Exact source

you burned Dawn's cell phone / you call her cellphone dawn answers

Scope / stop: Observed conflict, not internal cause.

46:43–48:21 · 9Mf8aPI7BYY

A direct disagreement about the earlier war persists, then examining the damage is followed by acknowledgement.

Exact source

of course I believe you now

Scope / stop: Within-scene contrast, not controlled identical prompts.

7:28–8:11 · NZbOqo9QrV4

Requested disarm becomes a different action.

Exact source

wrestle the knife out of his hands / shove it into your mouth

Scope / stop: Not evidence that a completed disarm was later forgotten.

9:01–11:04 · R0KhiLGVxZk

Players discuss a direct story statement; continuation leaves protagonist alone.

Exact source

eggman dies it doesn't it does not come back / you're left alone in the sewer

Scope / stop: Historical local outcome; no internal-memory inspection.

1:19:38–1:21:59 · TpYVyJBmH0g

AI repeats slime tactic while human GM continues describing retained constraint.

Exact source

Okay, you already have done that

Scope / stop: Human GM, AI players; no autonomous narrator reliability claim.

1:21:10–1:21:35;1:23:19–1:23:54 · TpYVyJBmH0g

Proposed elevator escape rejected; later flight escape accepted.

Exact source

still stuck at the bottom / successfully leap out of the well

Scope / stop: Human adjudication decides which action becomes a result.

Comparison scope

Shared narrow point: requests, continuations and established state must be distinguished. There is no four-author consensus on a cause or cure. Contrasting scenes are not matched model trials. No current model versions, context limits, timings, prices or failure rates verified; none asserted. NovelAI action/dialogue versus direct-edit terminology checked against its official documentation. High-view source SntwZyRm6Ls excluded because no complete native transcript was available.

Audit

529 / 987 × 100 = 53.6%. Full rendered article including figure caption and research-provenance paragraph; collapsed navigation excluded; seven original mapped paragraphs only in numerator. Composition, not external semantic exclusivity. Not worldwide or Google-top10 exclusivity. Fifty-eight final prose/caption/provenance sentences queried individually in quotes; no full-sentence match found in returned excerpts. Search may relax quoted terms and does not prove worldwide absence. Full local query record retained.

Stopping point: source comparison, caption excerpts and official terminology read. No new gameplay or memory-engine test run by this operator.

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