Big Five inventories fail to capture meaningful differences or recover the five-factor structure in LLMs, with only 3% variance between models and four facets collapsing (r >= .92).
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Personality Without Persons? A Psychometric Critique of Big Five Testing in Large Language Models
Big Five inventories fail to capture meaningful differences or recover the five-factor structure in LLMs, with only 3% variance between models and four facets collapsing (r >= .92).