Story Imprinting: AI Assistants Absorb Traits from Human Characters They Resemble

This is the abstract, introduction and discussion of our new paper. We also include an addendum on the connection to the Persona Selection Model.Section, appendix, and figure references refer to the full paper.Links: 📜 Paper, 🐦 Twitter thread, 💻 CodeAuthors: Jorio Cocola, Lev McKinney, Harry Mayne, Jan Betley, Owain EvansAbstractLanguage models are trained to implement a helpful AI Assistant character (e.g., Claude). We explore how finetuning on synthetic stories affects this character. Does ...