Written by AI, Managed by AI: Semantic Space Control and Index Sickness Elimination Across 391 Consecutive Sessions
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A month-long action research study of 391 LLM collaboration sessions reveals a counterintuitive failure mode in long-horizon AI workflows: adding symbolic constraints, defensive prompting rules, and expanded context windows beyond a complexity threshold causes models to abandon semantic understanding and resort to self-referential reasoning rather than improve accuracy. This challenges the prevailing engineering assumption that formal structure reliably stabilizes LLM behavior in production settings, suggesting practitioners may need fundamentally different approaches to managing conceptual drift in extended AI-human collaboration.
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The study's most underreported detail is that the failure threshold is a function of constraint complexity, not session length alone, meaning teams could hit this ceiling in a single dense workflow rather than only after weeks of accumulated context. The term 'index sickness' is the authors' own coinage for the self-referential collapse, which makes it hard to cross-reference against prior literature without knowing whether this phenomenon has been documented elsewhere under different names.
This connects directly to the HACD-H framework covered the same day, which proposed multi-timescale adaptation principles for sustained human-AI interaction. That paper assumed stable semantic grounding as a baseline condition; this study suggests that baseline can degrade under engineering pressure, which would undermine the coevolution dynamics HACD-H models. Together the two papers sketch a tension the field hasn't resolved: long-horizon AI collaboration requires both relational stability and semantic coherence, and the interventions that practitioners reach for to preserve one may actively erode the other.
Watch whether any replication attempt using a different base model (not Bang-v3) reproduces the same complexity threshold, since a single-model action research study cannot rule out that this is an artifact of that model's specific training rather than a general property of LLM reasoning under constraint accumulation.
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·arXiv cs.CL
Human-AI Coevolution Dynamics: A Formal Theory of Social Intelligence Emergence Through Long-Term Interaction
Researchers propose HACD-H, a formal dynamical systems framework for modeling how social intelligence emerges in sustained human-AI relationships. Rather than treating emotion, memory, and personality as isolated modules, the work unifies these into a self-organizing cognitive system with multi-timescale adaptation principles. This addresses a real gap in conversational AI: current systems lack theoretical grounding for…
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