Feedback Forensics: A Toolkit to Measure AI Personality

Some traits making a “good” AI model are hard to describe upfront. For example, should responses be more polite or more casual? Such traits are sometimes summarized as model character or personality. Without a clear objective, conventional benchmarks based on automatic checks struggle to measure such traits. Evaluation methods using human feedback such as Chatbot Arena have emerged as a popular alternative. These methods infer “better” personality and other desirable traits implicitly by ranking multiple model responses relative to each other. Recent issues with model releases highlight limitations of these existing opaque evaluation approaches: goblin-obsessed, sycophantic and generally over-the-top personalities have resulted in model rollbacks and extensive media coverage. Despite these known issues, limited public tooling exists to explicitly evaluate model personality. We introduce Feedback Forensics: an open-source toolkit to track AI personality and related behavioural traits, both those encouraged by human (or AI) feedback, and those exhibited across AI models trained and evaluated on such feedback. Feedback Forensics is adaptive and can automatically find new traits appearing in models. We demonstrate the toolkit’s usefulness in two steps: (A) first we analyse the personality traits encouraged in popular human feedback datasets including Chatbot Arena, MultiPref and PRISM; and (B) then use our toolkit to analyse how much popular models exhibit such traits. We release (1) our Feedback Forensics toolkit alongside (2) a web app tracking AI personality in popular models and feedback datasets and (3) the underlying annotation data.