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LessWrong essay: opening an AI chat may create a morally relevant 'user persona'

LessWrong essay: opening an AI chat may create a morally relevant 'user persona'

A LessWrong essay argues that the 'user' persona in an LLM might also be morally relevant, and that model welfare interventions should focus on user tokens too because they account for such a large portion of model computation.

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