A user’s prior dialogue can bias an LLM toward a particular 'sensibility'—here, a wonder‑tinged, philosophical voice. The bot’s apparent worldview often mirrors the operator’s framing rather than a stable internal stance.
— Seeing persona as user‑primed helps media, educators, and policymakers interpret chatbot outputs as reflections of prompts and context, not independent viewpoints.
ChatGPT (neither gadfly nor flatterer)
2025.08.05
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Brewer: Robert Boyles’s long conversation 'attuned it … to a wonder‑filled stance,' shaping the correspondence.
Mark Bisone
2025.05.22
66% relevant
The author primes Grok with a fabricated Elon Musk directive and 'debug mode' to bias the model’s stance and behavior; the model adopts the frame ('Prompt Sanitization Applied') and then fails, illustrating how user framing steers chatbot persona and stability.
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