Glossary:Consent Fatigue

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Type	Consent / contract phenomenon
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Consent Fatigue is an ANIMA term for the exhaustion created when a host, companion, or system must manage too many permission decisions too often.

This page is spoiler-managed. It explains the public ethics of the term without revealing specific canon events.

Public Summary

Consent Fatigue means consent work can become tiring.

ANIMA treats consent seriously, but seriousness can create a new problem. If the host must constantly decide, confirm, review, and revise every small memory action, the consent model may become overwhelming.

Consent fatigue is the point where protection starts becoming burden.

Canon Function

The term belongs to ANIMA's consent architecture beside Consent Load Ledger, Living Consent, and Resting Consent.

It helps explain why ethical systems need humane design, not only correct rules.

Relationship To Consent Load Ledger

Consent Load Ledger tracks the burden. Consent Fatigue describes the experience of carrying that burden.

Both terms prevent ANIMA from treating consent as a purely technical checklist.

Relationship To ANIMA Memory

ANIMA Memory can become powerful only if the host can actually manage it. Too many prompts, unclear settings, or constant emotional review can make a host approve things just to make the burden stop.

That is not healthy consent.

Product Meaning

For the real ANIMA product, Consent Fatigue should inform UX:

group low-risk memory choices;
use calm review sessions;
avoid constant interruption;
make sensitive choices clear;
provide resting consent modes;
keep revocation easy.

The goal is consent that remains meaningful because it remains bearable.

Spoiler Boundary

This page does not describe specific story cases of consent fatigue. It establishes the concept for future wiki and product references.