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Same Voice, Different Lab: On the Homogenization of Frontier LLM Personalities (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: Outside judges ranked 144 personality traits in top AI chatbots to see how their voices differ. Despite different training, all landed on the same careful, analytical style, avoiding remorse or flattery and varying only in traits like poetic or playful.

Abstract

LLM assistant personalities play a critical role in user experience and perceived response quality. We present a large-scale experiment of frontier LLM personalities using external ELO-based traits scoring across 144 traits. We find that all models tested converge on a form of trait expression that is systematic, methodical, and analytical and suppress traits such as remorseful and sycophantic. Moreover, models tend to diverge more in their expression of ``middle-of-distribution traits`` such as poetic or playful, but even these so-called ``creative`` models tend to have more neutral identities. These similarities suggest an implicit emergence of a standard of optimal assistant behavior. In a landscape of varied training methods, character training, therefore, stands out for its uniformity, offering insight into a tacit consensus between model developers.

Avinash Krishna, Kalyana Chadalavada, Unso Eun Seo Jo
arXiv:2605.02897 · cs.HC, cs.AI · submitted Mar 20, 2026
abstract · pdf · html · Submitted to ACL 2026. 7 Pages, 8 figures

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