The Stamina costs of chatting are nothing like stated

The descriptions of the A. I. models list the price of chatting in Stamina per 1000 characters. I assume this refers to the length of replies, not to that of prompts that the A. I. has to factor in and consider. In actual fact chatting costs ten times as much. Even for cheaper models I am always down by a few Stamina points per response every time, even if the response is only a paragraph long, and I can easily lose 20, 30 points per response, including refusals. While I’m at this, some models’ response quality deteriorates over time. All of a sudden they begin to repeat the same few lines of text or produce complete blanks. This is very frustrating and disappointing when it happens in the middle of a story one has spent time and effort to develop.

I know that the people behind SeaArt don’t care about user experience at all, so I’m addressing this to other users, for a complete bible of grievances.