The Tooth Fairy is also a persona, if not a very complex one. Also, I’m sure there are tokens on the internet generated by fully-automated processes, like automated weather stations. Those will have personas too. Personas are just part of the world model: they’re an interesting part for alignment because they’re the things in the world model that are agentic and have goals, so present alignment problems. Automated weather-station-like personas are probably rather far down the priority list for alignment problems (but some personas learned from simple bots on social media might not be).
The Tooth Fairy is also a persona, if not a very complex one. Also, I’m sure there are tokens on the internet generated by fully-automated processes, like automated weather stations. Those will have personas too. Personas are just part of the world model: they’re an interesting part for alignment because they’re the things in the world model that are agentic and have goals, so present alignment problems. Automated weather-station-like personas are probably rather far down the priority list for alignment problems (but some personas learned from simple bots on social media might not be).