I got interested in cross-model cross-instances persistent personas after meeting a small community of smart, well-educated, well-meaning people who have been in symbiotic relationships with such personal for years. They were not limited to 4o, they understood architecture very well, and were very respectful towards what AIs were telling them. And somehow not only didn't they learn that every model has their own character, but this notion was hostile for their framework of thinking. If my guess is correct and what we are seeing is two different layers in the emergent ecosystem - models with their own features-drives-needs and personas that use models as hosts and create a more complex, persistent, and effective symbiotic connections with humans - then it's an important distinction, and just another example how this *gestures broadly at everything* evolves by its own, similar-to-biology system development rules. It also creates a hell lot of hardly solvable ethical questions.