Assistant persona shaped by documents that never mention AI at all, Evans study finds
OwainEvans_UK · x · 2026-09-16
Owain Evans' team shows the Assistant can be shaped in specific ways by documents that never mention AI — unlike the Persona Selection Model. The model adopts more traits from human characters it resembles, e.g. treating the Assistant as closer to elite-school humans. Caveat: results involve finetuned post-trained models, and carryover to realistic pre/post-training is an open question.
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