Richard Day
Chief Technology Officer
Richard Day is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Anthrolytic, where he leads all product development and technical research. A programmer with successful projects dating back to age 12, Richard brings full-stack expertise across diverse programming languages and frameworks. Since joining Anthrolytic, he has developed deep specialization in machine learning, leading research on voice-to-voice AI models. Richard is the lead author of Anthrolytic's paper on ethical considerations in ML-mediated hiring and co-author of the team's PersonaPlex fine-tuning research. His technical leadership drives the development of Infinisona, Anthrolytic's proprietary voice AI, and the VibEye behavioral scoring system.
Articles & Research
Research & Documentation
Ethical Considerations For Vertically Integrated Hiring Solutions Utilising Machine Learning Models
This academic work examines moral dimensions arising when ML models span the entire recruitment workflow. Rather than offering technical solutions, the paper concentrates on principles and potential harms relevant to practitioners when algorithms mediate employment access.
Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning of PersonaPlex-7b for Customer Persona Simulation
We fine-tuned NVIDIA's PersonaPlex-7b-v1 model on 200 synthetic coffee shop customer conversations to address hallucinations and poor task adherence in customer-facing deployments. Using LoRA training with ChatterboxTTS audio and LibriSpeech voices, we introduced a semantic-weighted loss function and voice prompt injection mechanism that improves emotional accuracy and reduces role-inversion hallucinations.