Xiao et al. 2026

The chameleon's limit: persona collapse and homogenization in LLMs. Xiao, Y., Zhang, V. J., Yang, C., Ma, N., Xuan, W., and Huang, J.-t. (2026). arXiv:2604.24698.

Relationship to this project — Persona-collapse territory

Occupies the broad claim that persona diversity can be structurally hollow. The distinct combination here is strategic interaction, a manipulated incentive, quantitative between/within decomposition, prospective registration, and mechanical adjudication linking a concentration pattern to a failed incentive-response validation.