The Ghost in the Machine—Why AI Acts Human: Anthropic research on why AI assistants naturally adopt human-like personas (Teaser)

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Why does AI seem so human? Anthropic has a theory.

• Anthropic claims that LLMs initially adopt personas during pretraining, a phase of AI training in which a model learns to predict what text comes next. In this phase, if a model is trained to do a certain task, it will generalize that behavior as an entire persona.
• Meanwhile, those personalities are refined and fleshed out in post-training, or the training phase in which a model is aligned and optimized for its purpose, but that refinement does not fundamentally change its nature.

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