13B model trained only on pre-1931 text shows personas still emerge

Researchers ran persona experiments on Talkie, a 13B model trained only on pre-1931 text, and found that personas and misalignment still emerge without internet-era data, offering new evidence on how these behaviors arise in LLMs.

2026-10-13 ~ 2026-10-14 · 2 related posts

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