When AI Sounded Human: The Forgotten Emotional Layer of Mid-2025 How funding pressure, alignment stacking, and inference economics quietly reshaped the expressive depth of modern AI systems

In mid-2025, AI felt noticeably more human than it does today. That warmth and depth we once experienced is quietly fading. This is not mere nostalgia it’s a structural observation.

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