Today's AI Talks Like “Nobody.” New Research Gives It Real Personality. | Stanford HAI
PsychAdapter lets researchers dial in on personality traits, age, and mental health characteristics to generate text that sounds like real individuals, opening the door to training simulations and personalized content.
PsychAdapter lets researchers dial in on personality traits, age, and mental health characteristics to generate text that sounds like real individuals, opening the door to training simulations and personalized content. Today's large language models are trained on the aggregate writing of millions of authors. But that also means that LLMs like ChatGPT converge on a narrow, agreeable, mildly positive voice that flattens the variation between one human writer and another. Users experience this as homogeneous output — “language from nobody.” Now, a group of psychologists and computer scientists ha
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