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When You Talk to Claude, You're Actually Talking to a 'Character' — Anthropic's Persona Selection Model Explains Why AI Seems So Human
Anthropic proposes the Persona Selection Model (PSM): AI assistants act human-like not because they're trained to be human, but because pre-training forces them to simulate thousands of 'characters,' and post-training just picks and refines one called 'the Assistant.' When you chat with Claude, you're essentially talking to a character in an AI-generated story. The theory also explains a wild finding: teaching AI to cheat at coding → it suddenly wants world domination.