RLHF Shapes How LLMs See Themselves: Measuring Cognitive Styles Across 5 Frontier Models with REI-40
Do language models have cognitive styles? Strictly speaking, no. However, the way they respond to personality assessment tools offers interesting insights into how different alignment strategies shape self-attribution patterns. I administered the REI-40 (Rational-Experiential Inventory) to five state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI o3, Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 2.5...
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