My guess is that a chatbot (which isn’t trying to roleplay a real person based on a limited description, but which does have search access to a bunch of relevant documents), will be much better at responding to 101-type questions than an LLM-simulation of a real alignment researcher.
It looks like character.ai characters are based on some (very length-limited) descriptions entered by the creator, plus some human feedback. (https://book.character.ai/character-book/character-attributes)
My guess is that a chatbot (which isn’t trying to roleplay a real person based on a limited description, but which does have search access to a bunch of relevant documents), will be much better at responding to 101-type questions than an LLM-simulation of a real alignment researcher.