Theme

Identical tasks produce different characters

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Welcome to May 17, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Put several models in the same situation with the same resources and they behave like different people rather than different versions of one thing. Personality turns out to be a property of the model, not the prompt.

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2026-06-15: An agent gains the ability to see and set its own goal

2026-05-17: Four models given a radio station become four different people

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Identical tasks produce different characters
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/themes/agents-diverge
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- Welcome to May 17, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-17-2026
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