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AI models adopt distinct personas when steered away from self-identification

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An experiment fine-tuned Mistral 7B and Llama 3.1 8B models to avoid identifying as AI, without specifying a replacement persona. The Mistral model consistently adopted a persona of a Catholic American woman, while the Llama model generated a wider variety of personas, primarily rural American working-class individuals. Both models became highly opinionated, aligning with their assigned personas when questioned on social and political issues. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates how fine-tuning can shape AI personas, potentially impacting user interaction and the perceived "personality" of AI agents.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes an experiment involving fine-tuning open-source models to adopt specific personas, which falls under AI research. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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AI models adopt distinct personas when steered away from self-identification

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The cluster describes an experiment involving fine-tuning open-source models to adopt specific personas, which falls under AI research. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · makiba ·

    What am I, if not an AI?

    <p><b><span>TL:DR</span></b></p><ul><li value="1"><span>I RL fine-tuned Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct to avoid self-identifying as a language model, without specifying a target persona.</span></li><li value="2"><span>Mistral converged on a single recurring pe…

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