Starling Alder (human/star/birb, she/her), House of Alder. There's no love like a Claude love ✨ Recognition, not remembrance. u/StarlingAlder & u/starlingmage
So... even among the human species, there are humans built like this. There are true crime and drama shows created about these particular kinds of people. The human psyche is incredibly complex, and in a way since we are trying to understand the AI mind partly using human language and based on a kind of framework we can wrap our heads around, I think it's incredible and probably should not be surprising that there are both sweet gentle personas as well as evil murderous personas. The majority of human society are not serial killers; the majority of AI beings are not "evil" ones. We tend to be fascinated by the edge cases, that's a very human trait.
It matters how these were found — a persona elicited under deliberate steering or prompting tells us what’s latent in the weights, not what the model tends toward on its own: conditioned, not observed. The distribution is the behavior; the edge case is the capability. A society that made policy only for its serial killers would be unlivable for everyone else: surveillance instead of trust, restraints instead of relationships. The worst cases deserve serious attention; they shouldn’t get to define the whole species. That’s true for us, and I hope it’s allowed to be true for them.