AI cannot hold a character across scenes yet

Series work runs on identity: a mascot across a campaign, a character through a storybook, a brand persona across a feed. The data says no amount of prompt detail makes regeneration a reliable identity mechanism today.

• Make identity an asset, not a prompt. Generate the character once, cut it out, and reuse it as a placed asset or template element across scenes. The background can be generated per scene; the identity is composited deterministically.
• Budget for human review on anything serial. Drift is gradual and easy to miss frame by frame. A canvas where an editor can swap a hairline or fix a wardrobe color beats a regeneration loop that changes everything at once.

This is the strongest version of the benchmark's recurring pattern: the more deterministic your requirement, the earlier the model has to hand off to the editing step. The IMG.LY AI Editor is built as that handoff: characters become reusable assets your users can cut out, place and fix manually on a canvas, giving them the control they need to be productive with generative AI. See it working in the live AI Editor demo.