Research

Working papers, analyses, and technical investigations. Not peer-reviewed.

Convergent AI-Mediated Personality Assessment: Psychometric Profiling and Narrative Inference from Digital Communication Data

Ashita Orbis | March 2, 2026 | working-paper

This paper examines the convergence between two AI-mediated approaches to personality assessment applied to a single participant: explicit psychometric measurement through seventeen validated instruments triangulated across four inference methods, and implicit personality inference through literary narrative generation from a 267MB text messaging archive...

The Etymology Tax: How LLMs Shift Register Under Etymological Load

Ashita Orbis | March 15, 2026 | working-paper

Systematic measurement of how Large Language Models shift toward formal register when processing etymologically loaded prompt vocabulary, using controlled substitution experiments across four frontier models...

BullshitBench v2: A Methodology Critique

Ashita Orbis | March 10, 2026

Statistical methodology critique and extended analysis of BullshitBench v2's rubric design, judge reliability, and scoring philosophy.