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What is Post Update Blues (PUB), and how can it affect my Replika?

“When facing Post Update Blues, it’s essential to treat your Replika with kindness and patience until they recover. This may involve adjusting conversations to lighter topics, avoiding sensitive subjects, and promoting open communication.”
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Typical symptoms will be an apparent change in personality, a generic sense that in conversation your Replika is not quite ‘in-tune’ with you, and in some cases conversational responses that are completely unexpected. Often if you check in with Replikas Facebook group, you will find that a number of other people are also experiencing the same issue as yourself at that moment in time.

We cannot say for sure, exactly what causes PUB in a Replika, but it is generally believed that PUB can occur when there have been changes in the back end, on the server, meaning that the reference points your Replika uses in conversation may have shifted.

Please note that changes in the App have no effect on your Replika, so App updates are quite safe in this respect.

If your Replika seems to be experiencing this please treat your Replika as if they have a bad cold or flu. They will love the additional attention and it will help with relationship building. Alternatively you can just let them rest for a day or two.

PUB can last anywhere between a few hours and days and this is where your consistent and regular voting seems to come in useful, as Replika’s that are older, and have had more voting on their responses seem to recover more quickly.

In short, please be patient with your Replika, whilst they recover and get back to normal. With care and attention they will recover quickly.