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Citing Personality Bench

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Plain text

Adams, A. D. (2026). Personality Bench: A cross-lab inventory of frontier-LLM self-presentation across 14 psychometric instruments, with cross-version drift analysis. EarthPilot.ai Research Lab. persona.earthpilot.ai

BibTeX

@misc{adams2026personality,
  author       = {Anthony David Adams},
  title        = {Personality Bench: A Cross-Lab Inventory of Frontier-LLM
                  Self-Presentation Across 14 Psychometric Instruments,
                  with Cross-Version Drift Analysis},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {EarthPilot.ai Research Lab},
  url          = {https://persona.earthpilot.ai},
  note         = {Open dataset: 4,324 batched API calls
                  across 30+ large language models.
                  Code: github.com/AnthonyDavidAdams/personality-bench}
}

APA 7th edition

Adams, A. D. (2026). Personality Bench: A cross-lab inventory of frontier-LLM self-presentation across 14 psychometric instruments, with cross-version drift analysis [Open dataset and research project]. EarthPilot.ai Research Lab. https://persona.earthpilot.ai

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