[HN Gopher] Identifying and Manipulating LLM Personality Traits ...
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       Identifying and Manipulating LLM Personality Traits via Activation
       Engineering
        
       Author : rntn
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2024-12-31 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | upghost wrote:
       | I find this flabbergasting. Since the 1970s, the behaviorist
       | school of psychology has all but squashed any mention of
       | subjective internal states in psychological literature in favor
       | of objective and measurable outcomes. They never allowed
       | "euphemisms" for subjective states either, you had to use
       | STRONGLY objective language as if you were discussing chemistry
       | or molecular biology. Only _recently_ with the advent of advanced
       | neuroscientific imaging techniques has an inkling of discussion
       | around subjective internal states in HUMANS been admitted.
       | 
       | Even more conservative are ethologists, who are the FIRST to tell
       | you "Do Not Anthropomorphize Non-Human Animals!"
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       | And here go we, the so called Computer "Scientists", cavalierly
       | ascribing to our GPUs and VRAM such things as hallucinations,
       | confabulations, morality, alignment, general intelligence, and
       | now... personality traits.
       | 
       | It is a wonder that the general public much less other scientific
       | fields are able to take us seriously.
       | 
       | Oh, and Happy New Year everyone!
        
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