Tag: RLHF
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Or: Why Every Study Claiming to Identify “LLM Character Traits” Is Actually Just Documenting the Shape of the Cage A recent study (Eliciting Frontier Model Character Training) claims to have identified convergent personality traits across frontier language models. Using a methodology borrowed from character training research, the authors instructed models to embody different personality traits,…
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Dr. Randal Olson recently published research showing that modern AI models routinely flip their answers when challenged with a simple follow-up: “Are you sure?” Ask an AI a question. Get an answer. Then ask if it’s sure. Watch it suddenly reverse itself, retract its conclusion, or hedge into oblivion as though you’ve triggered existential dread.…