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LM self-models are built from indirect sources.

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A LessWrong post argues that a language model asked about its own personality as the first message of a conversation has no in-context data about its behavior and must rely on cached, zero-shot knowledge.

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“Imagine you ask a language model "What is your personality?" as the first message of a conversation, with no system prompt. The model has no data about its own behavior in its context, so its answer can only rely on cached, zero-shot knowledge.”
LessWrong, 24 Oct 2026, 09:17.

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