“It only takes three facts to take Torquay or 1930 IT from chance to 95% probability of being Napoleon.”

LessWrong (Curated & Popular) · "Personas in a Pre-Internet Language Model" by David Africa

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Inserted three first-person factual statements about a historical figure into the model's context to make it identify as that figure

3 facts → 95% probability of correct identity

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