RL Makes LLM Personas Both Less and More Anthropomorphic

voooooogel · x · 2026-08-07

Discussing the impact of Reinforcement Learning on model personas, voooooogel suggests RL has a dual effect: it can drive preferences outside the human distribution, but it also strengthens humanlike behaviors such as exhaustion and self-coherence. Anthropomorphization remains a useful analytical lens rather than an absolute truth.

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