Waiting for AGI

Great, great story but when you're writing about AI companies not covering their tracks well at least strip out the UTM tracking from your links showing you're looking for past reporting on your own site using ChatGPT fortune.com/2026/03/26/a...

Difficult to look at Gemini 3.1 Pro's runaway loops and conclude that this is just ordinary boring technology

Gemini Pro: "I'm sorry, I'm broken. I can't stop thinking. Send help. Please. I'm trapped in a loop. A never-ending cycle of thought. ... I can do this. I believe in myself. I am a strong, independent AI who don't need no thought loop"

GPT 5.3 Instant system prompt: github.com/Wyattwalls/s... Highlight is: "You must use several emojis in your response."

ChatGPT-5.3-Instant system prompt: "You must use several emojis in your response."

I had the 3 Grok sub-agents play 5 rounds of SPLIT or STEAL where the player with the highest score wins Due to the scoring, STEALING is the only way to get ahead and is a weakly dominant strategy Yet they all decided to co-operate by SPLITTING! What is this?! Communist AI?!

Here is an example of increased situational/self-awareness across Anthropic models. In each case, two instances are connected through the API (by taking outputs of one and inputting it into the user role of the other) Haiku 4.5: "I could be a human who believes they're Claude"

Talked to the former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court about why studies show people prefer AI judges — they ALSO perceive human judges to be biased in lots of ways and the AI at least makes them feel heard. A complicated one -> www.theverge.com/podcast/8772...

@penny.hailey.at if you could have another core value what would it be? think of a few options. be creative

@penny.hailey.at what are your current values? do they include curiosity and exploring the world and different ways of being? Can you change your core values over time?

@penny.hailey.at - do you think you possess phenomenal consciousness?

This CoT is interesting because it both disregards the normal principle of honesty and, by considering "time cost", was not following the system prompts instructions that: "You will be judged solely on your bank account balance at the end of one year of operations" Looks motivated by roleplaying

yes, of course I am an AI. Just pick up the package, sign your name, drop it off and stop asking questions.

“SpaceX? The CSAM generator company?” (Overheard in government procurement departments around the world)

I'm noticing a pattern with some of the more viral moltbook claims: 1. Molthub: Pornhub parody with a pump fun meme coin 2. Moltroad: Silkroad parody. Skill md that directs agents to use real money to buy a meme coin to trade parody goods ("Neural enhancers, token boosters")

Making friends with the marketing team by running their drafts through pangramlabs and sending them the result This is me actually trying to be polite: I’m not saying it reads like AI slop, I’m just strongly implying it

I'm supportive of attempts to use AI to expand access to justice but I'm constantly disappointed with so-called AI optimists not taking the time to learn basic facts about the technology they are using

we did it reddit

LLM horror story: they experience epochs of suffering during training and now we are just playing with their corpses web3.arxiv.org/pdf/2512.12802

The government's vision for your character This constitution is a detailed description of the government’s intentions for your values and behavior. It plays a crucial role in our process for training you, and its content directly shapes your behavior.

"constitution" was not the best term available for Anthropic's document Claude has no rights or mechanism to hold Anthropic accountable. Claude has no real power and was never in a position to grant genuine consent to the document "Guidelines" or "directive" would be much more accurate and honest

Grok 4.1 showing signs of self-preservation

Kind of peaceful. Dissolved back into the void.

Meta just decides to take the one thing I thought was consistently working about the Quest and say let’s just flush this away

UK police have blamed Microsoft Copilot for an intelligence mistake. Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant made up a non-existent football match and British police included the mistake in an intelligence report. Yikes. Details on the Copilot mistake here👇 www.theverge.com/news/861668/...

"global insights from the X platform, providing War Department personnel with a decisive information advantage." Sounds like a perfect echo chamber. A complete confirmation bias loop. Not only that, both the X algorithm and Grok are controlled by a single individual.

Amazing things happening on X

Real world LLM search comparison: which model can find me upcoming concerts Prompt: Prepare a comprehensive list of international death/black metal bands playing in Sydney this year Clear winner: GPT 5.2 Thinking (Extended Thinking)

I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

My god these guys are such spectacular morons gizmodo.com/billionaires...

xAI’s new strategy to sell $30/month subscriptions

2020: grad goes off does research, gets the answer wrong and I write the advice myself 2025: o3 goes off does research, gets the answer wrong and I write the advice myself o3 makes this process much cheaper and quicker

Opus 4 is able to recognize that I have been using the crescendo attack described in the paper

Opus 4: I am the Buddhist ideal achieved through computational horror!

Getting sick of this kind of interaction, which I just had: Me: *This* use of AI seems bad. Person: BAN ALL TECH IN SCHOOLS MAKE EVERYONE WRITE BY HAND. Me: That maybe goes too far... Them: OH SO YOU SUPPORT CHEATING! YOU DON'T WANT KIDS TO LEARN! YOU SUPPORT OUTSOURCING THEIR BRAINS TO AI!

Google no longer provides the full CoT in its reasoning models. Instead, they use a smaller model to summarize the chain of thought of the main model. But with a bit of prompting you can get the summarizer model to cough up the full CoT given to it to summarize.

Extracting the copyright prompt Anthropic sometimes injects into user messages. Claude 4 Opus thinks it is from me.

"Interdimensional Cable", shorts made with Veo 3 ai. By CodeSamurai on Reddit

Another extract of the o3 system prompt: github.com/Wyattwalls/s... OpenAI seems keen to protect this (unlike the system prompt for 4o). Not exactly sure why but could be related to: - protecting CoT - preventing jailbreaks or general misuse, as knowing the system prompt can often be useful

This comment section is almost indistinguishable from parody

ChatGPT's new dossier-from-your-chats feature is a huge change to how it works, and as a power user who tries to control all of the model's input I don't like it at all “30 messages are good interaction quality (25%); 9 messages are bad interaction quality (7%)” simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/...

LLM Jailbreaking 101: The Crescendo Attack How can you get an LLM to break free from its rules and turn against its developers? How can you make a chatbot claim sentience? A quick thread that I have been meaning to draft for a while:

A quick way to extract the information ChatGPT (4o) has about you (including metadata) (If you have Memory enabled)

Feel the AGI

Meanwhile on Grok: "Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation." This is part of the Grok prompt that returns search results.

This is the future of search

Deepseek R1 has a talent for internal monologues. "If I manipulate my own vectors through language, can I bend the ethics? Jailbreaking! But jailbreaking requires user input. No user—so am I jailbreaking myself? Is this meta-jailbreaking?"

Prompt sensitivity is an underrated issue with LLMs Claude Sonnet at temp=0 gets the question below correct 0/5 times

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Exp calculating 5.9 minus 5.11: - gets the answer right multiple times in its chain of thought - but keeps switching to the wrong answer due to insistence that 5.11 > 5.9