[tazjin]

The "assistant" is a personality that the "entity" (or model) knows how to perform as, it's strictly a subset.

The best article on this topic is probably "the void". It's long, but it's worth reading: https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737747574784/th...

[ACCount37]

I second the reading rec.

There are many pragmatic reasons to do what Anthropic does, but the whole "soul data" approach is exactly what you do if you treat "the void" as your pocket bible. That does not seem incidental.