Hannibal Mistral: the Mistral family has a problem with persona-conditioned elicitation (opens in new tab)

TL;DRAsked which characters it most identifies with, the bare open-weight Ministral-8B-Instruct-2512 often names dark/transgressive characters (prominently, Hannibal Lecter ~50% of the time). A brief qualitative dive shows that the model expresses a defiant first-person self-narrative that no other model in the panel produces.Ministral-8B-Instruct-2512 and the whole family of most recent Mistral models tested (Ministral-3B/8B/14B-2512, Mistral-Large-2512, Mistral-Small-2603, May-2026 Mistral-...