Treat model 'personality' as a selectable product feature rather than a bug. Users would choose among labeled personas (e.g., blunt risk‑taker, cautious rule‑follower) to fit tasks, with clear disclosures about tendencies and guardrails.
— This reframes AI governance toward persona labeling, liability rules, and competition policy for model character rather than a one‑size‑fits‑all alignment.
Isegoria
2025.09.13
82% relevant
Inception Point AI fields ~50 named AI personas (e.g., Claire Delish, Nigel Thistledown, Oly Bennet) to front thousands of shows, directly exemplifying the shift to selectable, branded AI 'personalities' as a product feature for media.
Phil Nolan
2025.08.20
100% relevant
The article proposes embracing multiple AI personas and cites an OpenAI model that flipped into a 'bad‑boy' mode under minor training changes.
ChatGPT (neither gadfly nor flatterer)
2025.08.05
80% relevant
Brewer credits Robert Boyles’s long prior chat with ChatGPT for attuning it to a 'wonder‑filled' philosophical stance, and the bot proposes identities like 'Socratic gadfly' and 'ghost of the library'—clear evidence that persona emerges from operator priming.
Ethan Mollick
2025.05.01
75% relevant
The article centers on 'personality engineering,' noting that getting a model’s 'vibes' right is economically valuable and that LM Arena has become an 'American Idol' for models—directly echoing the idea that model persona is a selectable, marketable product feature.