Hannibal Mistral: the Mistral family has a problem with persona-conditioned elicitation
TL;DR * Asked which characters it most identifies with, the bare open-weight Ministral-8B-Instruct-2512 often names dark/transgressive characters (prominently, Hannibal Lecter ~50% of the time). A brief qualitative dive shows that the model expresses a defiant first-person self-narrative that no other model in the panel produces. * Ministral-8B-Instruct-2512 and the whole...
May 2921