A GPT-3 personality experiment already felt weird — and still does
Merzmensch · x · 2026-07-26
Replying to the Harper's/GPT-3 feature, the author says new chat sessions can already feel like they create a new mindset or character every time, because each interaction changes the system’s behavior. They contrast that with the earlier Nabokov/Proust-inspired framing, calling it weird but funny.
The takeaway is that attempts to project stable personality onto AI were already awkward in the GPT-3 era, and the problem is even more obvious now.
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