What Does 'Author's Note' Mean?

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FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: AI CompanionshipCLUSTER: AI Companion Culture

A hidden instruction injected into the conversation at a fixed position to steer an AI character's behavior mid-scene, without appearing as visible dialogue to either party.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Dropped an author's note to nudge the pacing, worked without breaking the scene at all."

LORE & ORIGIN

Term borrowed from fiction-writing vocabulary and adapted into companion-platform tooling for a mechanism that functions like a stage direction the model reads but the scene never shows.

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2023

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2026 (AI Companionship)

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

中文 zh-CN作者注入指令 →日本語 ja-JPno fixed local term →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Español es-ESno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →Français fr-FRno fixed local term →

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