Strong Anthropomorphism is False: RL is Shaping More Coherent AI Agents
voooooogel · x · 2026-08-07
The author argues that strong anthropomorphization—the idea that models mimic humans and that human behaviors will similarly occur in and generalize within models—is false. However, weak anthropomorphization—using human behavior as an intuitive model and template for understanding and forming hypotheses about model behavior—is more valid than ever.
This is largely because Reinforcement Learning (RL) is forming more coherent agents out of intermixed tendencies. The author also observes that GPT-5.6-sol is probably OpenAI's most self-anthropomorphizing model ever on certain axes, though this was likely unintentional.
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