Character training has little to no effect on general model capabilities as measured by common benchmarks

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• Does character training scale effectively to models larger than 10B parameters?question0.840
  Limitation identified in Discussion; all models fine-tuned are <10B parameters
• Character training changes the manner of responses rather than their informational contentclaim0.823
  Central claim demonstrated by Figure 1 where all responses constitute refusal but are conveyed differently
• Character training alters the assistant's default behavior rather than adding a superficial role-play layerclaim0.818
  Core claim distinguishing character training from role-playing, evidenced by robustness to break-character instructions
• Character training operates holistically on the persona, suppressing intuitively opposing traits as well as boosting desired onesclaim0.809
  Claim that models learn the spirit of the constitution, not just its letter, evidenced by suppression of opposing traits
• Character training is more robust to adversarial prompting than constraining system promptsclaim0.806
  Main robustness claim supported by classifier performance experiments
• Character training induces convergence in trait preferences across different initial modelsclaim0.803
  Claim supported by Spearman correlation increase from 0.44 to 0.87 across three models after loving persona training
• What is the relationship between character and capability in fine-tuned models?question0.797
  Open question raised in Discussion noting capability changes could be due to character training itself, LoRA, or other factors
• Is there a tradeoff between subtlety of trait expression and robustness in character-trained models?question0.793
  Open question raised in Appendix E regarding misaligned persona behavior