新闻 · arXiv cs.AI

Creativity, honesty and designed forgetting emerge in small hyperbolic language models

Language models are optimised for scale, yet remain functional rather than companionable, and as an assistant personalises into a companion, accumulating memory of one user, it quietly becomes someone, and can silently acquire traits that harm that user. What a companion is becoming, and what would make it worth becoming, has no reliable instrument: trained human raters cannot agree on the answer (Fleiss kappa = 0.074). Here we show that three small language models (146 M to 3 B parameters)…