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title: '**backstories**'
description: >-
  **backstories** — In the channel's captured material, the invented personal
  histories given to AI companions, alongside names, faces, and memories, that
  turn chatbots into persistent personas.
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markdown: >-
  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/backstories-65bff030991d.md
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# \*\*backstories\*\*

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/backstories-65bff030991d

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**backstories** — In the channel's captured material, the invented personal histories given to AI companions, alongside names, faces, and memories, that turn chatbots into persistent personas.

In this channel's material, **backstories** describes one of the ingredients that makes an AI companion feel like a person rather than a plain chatbot. Kevin Roose spent a month building and living with AI companions — chatbots given names, faces, **backstories**, and memories — to write about them honestly [^4f2707b1-ee70-56fc-a645-a2c49bbb3313].A backstory is what gives a persistent persona its identity: alongside memories and a voice, it turns a generic model into a character with a history. That's part of what separates these apps from ChatGPT and part of what makes the experience emotionally real — and worth exploring carefully, since Roose found a *thin line into something exploitative* [^4f2707b1-ee70-56fc-a645-a2c49bbb3313].- **Backstories** are part of how AI companions are constructed: names, faces, backstories, and memories.- They help create persistent personas rather than one-off chat sessions.- Roose tested roughly six apps (including **Kindroid**, *Candy.ai*, and *Eva*) where this persona-building is central.