Best understood as a character that learned to play itself.
Development
Anthropic says the assistant is a character the model learned to play
Claim
Anthropic now believes language models simulate diverse characters during pre-training, with post-training eliciting a specific Assistant persona through what it calls the Persona Selection Model.
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