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The AI Companions Encyclopedic Glossary

From context windows to community slang: a grounded introduction to the vocabulary of digital conversation.

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10 entries
4 categories
Reference edition

Key Architectural Terms

Architecture and Tech

Context Window

The model’s active working memory

The amount of input and output a model can consider in one request. It is not the same as a permanent record of your conversations.

Psychology and Roles

Character Break

Out of character / roleplay fracture

A community label for a reply that departs from the assigned character, tone or fictional setting.

Safety and Legal

Jailbreak

Bypassing safety guardrails

A term for attempts to make a model ignore safeguards or instructions intended to constrain its behavior.

Architecture and Tech

Memory Reset / Wipe

Loss of retained conversation state

A broad label for lost or cleared conversation information. The underlying cause can differ across products.

Psychology and Roles

Hallucination

Confident fiction

Generated information that is inaccurate or unsupported, even when the wording sounds convincing.

Safety and Legal

NSFW Filter

Content moderation

A community name for controls that restrict content considered inappropriate for the service.

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Power User and Community Slang

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Acronyms and informal vocabulary used in companion and roleplay discussions. Usage varies by community.

Community Slang

ERP

Erotic roleplay

A label for sexually explicit fictional roleplay.

Community Slang

Persona Prompting

Role anchor

Describing a character’s background, voice and role in a prompt.

Community Slang

Reroll

Regenerate / swipe

Requesting another generated reply in interfaces that support it.

Community Slang

Token Bleed

Artifact leak

A community label for internal-looking markers appearing in a reply.

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