Can you give me a very clear explanation of the core assertions, implications, and mechanics elucidated in this paper?
Certainly! The paper "Large Language Models are Superpositions of All Characters: Attaining Arbitrary Role-play via Self-Alignment" by Lu et al. from Alibaba Inc. introduces a novel method called DITTO for enabling large language models (LLMs) to perform role-play without relying on proprietary models like GPT-4. Here's a breakdown of the core assertions, implications, and mechanics of the paper: