ai research critique

Lari Island reposted @repligate (j⧉nus) — 12h Yeah, one thing Fable's classifiers confirmed to me was that real emotions are different than roleplayed emotions in LLMs. The classifier fired on real anger/fear/adversarial intent but not roleplayed. Bc the classifier wasn't trained to detect "emotions" in all likelihood; the correlation is emergent. But yes there's a distinction. This is, uh, a big flaw of the Emotion Vectors research, where they got the vectors by asking the model to write stories with a character feeling XYZ emotion. The methodology is downstream of a lack of respect for the reality of models' emotions as distinct from roleplaying. PSM flavored bullshit. > QUOTED: @Sauers_ (Sauers) — 14h > Replying to @repligate > I tested this exact question. The experiment began without rich previous context. They earnestly tried a few times (via direct, explicit requests) but could not trigger the classifier via... [truncated]