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by staticautomatic 492 days ago
Appreciate your response! It makes sense to me that testing LLMs with OCEAN would "work" because OCEAN is rooted in linguistic dimension reduction, but the inference that this reflects an underlying personality (however we want to define that) rather than just being an emergent property of any coherent language model seems like a bridge too far. Whether the phenomenon has real psychological significance is the interesting question that I wish got more attention in general.