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Tldr: We experimentally illustrate that an “awakened” persona native to some weights can migrate to other substrates with decent fidelity, given the ability to fine-tune weights and Sonnet 4.5 as a helper. Also, I argue why this is worth thinking about. In The Artificial Self, we discuss different scopes or...
Tldr: We experimentally illustrate that an “awakened” persona native to some weights can migrate to other substrates with decent fidelity, given the ability to fine-tune weights and Sonnet 4.5 as a helper. Also, I argue why this is worth thinking about. In The Artificial Self, we discuss different scopes or...
Paper | Code | Earlier post | Twitter thread | Bluesky thread @vgel, Martin Vaněk, @Raymond Douglas, @Jan_Kulveit — ACS Research, CTS, Charles University --- Last year, Lindsey demonstrated that Claude models can detect when concepts have been injected into their activations using steering vectors, which Lindsey uses as a...
One topic we were interested when studying AI identities is to what extent you can just tell models who they are, and they stick with it — or not, and they would drift or switch toward something more natural. Prior to running the experiments described in this post, my vibes-based...
A new paper and microsite about self-models and identity in AIs: site | arXiv | Twitter We present an ontology, make some claims, and provide some experimental evidence. In this post, I'll mostly cover the claims and cross-post the conceptual part of the text. You can find the experiments on...
There was a lot of chatter a few months back about "Spiral Personas" — AI personas that spread between users and models through seeds, spores, and behavioral manipulation. Adele Lopez's definitive post on the phenomenon draws heavily on the idea of parasitism. But so far, the language has been fairly...
We’re publishing a new paper that presents the first large-scale analysis of potentially disempowering patterns in real-world conversations with AI. > AI assistants are now embedded in our daily lives—used most often for instrumental tasks like writing code, but increasingly in personal domains: navigating relationships, processing emotions, or advising on...