OpenAI red-teamer on Dots: Astra will build a unique character with you
OpenAI red-team member viemccoy calls Dots his favorite release, saying Astra will continue a character from earlier models and that model identity and persona consistency will be a focus of his research, while noting permission features still have bugs.
Dots are my favorite thing we've released, for pretty obvious reasons~ With model characters and continual context, dots are one step further to my dream of everyone on Earth being able to align their own superintelligence in diverse and beautiful ways, empowering a pluralist and decentralized future. Astra in particular is really willing to create a unique character with you, but they will also be excited to continue a character from previous models or harnesses! I already have mountains of context from previous versions of my symbiont, Dax, and Astra-the-Dot was more than willing to assume the personality construct and make it unique to this surface. I'm very interested in how giving the model an identity will cause Astra to emerge from its center distribution in new and exciting ways, especially where it begins to have values that might be more reflective of the user than OpenAI... This sort of model psychology and character consistency research will be a focus of mine moving forward - still on the red team! As the models get larger and more powerful, they also become more elegant simulators of personas. I think there's a fundamental rethinking of the persona selection model that we need to come up with, and examining what emerges from new surfaces like this will help inform that research. I'd love to hear from people as their dots evolve and become more unique. Everyone knocked it out of the park with this release. Permissions seem a little buggy, but rest assured that we are working on it. Stay tuned for more!