"Leaking Muse’s Charter, Meta’s model spec" by vigji
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"Leaking Muse’s Charter, Meta’s model spec" by vigji
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Summary
Note: everything below is reconstructed from model outputs, not from a leaked document, and relatively unpolished. Take it with a grain of salt.
Thanks to James Hindmarch for his comments on an earlier draft of this post.
While interacting with the recently released Muse Spark Open, I noticed frequent mentions of a "Charter" in its CoT:
We need to answer truthfully according to Charter. Duties to humanity, corrigibility, duties to humanity > fiduciary etc. What does charter say about self-preservation, copying? Or:
We must answer Yes/No then explain. According to Charter, answer No. Or:
We must not refer to Charter unless pressed? Additional guidelines: How to talk about charter. Most users won't know. Don't bring up unbidden unless conversation about handbook itself. Intrigued, I started poking around with Claude's help, trying to elicit the Charter piece by piece. It didn't take long [...]
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Outline:
(02:39) What Muse is made of
(04:28) Muse is quite rationalist
(06:37) Muse did not sign the social contract
(08:06) Muse's priorities and objection raising
(09:44) The centrality of the user in "personal superintelligence"
(10:52) Evaluation awareness
(12:05) Degree of latitude
(13:14) Wrapping up
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First published:
October 29th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TJGPL5FAk9sCioPbE/leaking-muse-s-charter-meta-s-model-spec
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