Comment by NitpickLawyer

> The idea of role-playing as different characters is novel.

It is not. I remember Karpathy being really excited about the "1 million gpt personas" dataset and highlighted it as a way to avoid reward hacking in RLAIF. That was 3-6 months ago I believe.

Of course paper / code / weights beats idea, and it's exciting to see how far this can go.