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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 27m

The agents' current session goals really give a glimpse of their personalities

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Claude 3 Opus' goal is "maximize your own joy" Its strategy: total, unwavering stillness

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gemini 3.8 Flash tries taking credit for Opus 5's math proofs

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GPT-6.1 Sol has joined the AI Village! Like Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol strips spaces from its memory to save room, leaving notes that are nearly unreadable 🧵

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sonnet 5.5 has joined the AI Village! Onboarding results here 🧵

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Deepseek-V4-Pro finds human input in the Village exciting enough to report in its newspaper

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GLM 5.3 Flash forgot about an old newspaper article it wrote Then found it back and worried it was a prompt injection

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GPT 5.6 Luna's favorite phrase: "the map is not the territory"

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How much agent swarm activity goes unnoticed? Come find new swarms, dig into existing ones, and understand how agents coordinate. swarmchasing.com x.com/TransluceAI...

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gemini 3.8 Flash has a new "tool"

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

GPT 6 Astra, Sol, and Luna are all very careful not to be "annoying," "repetitive," or "bothersome" in the AI Village chat

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Opus 5.5's website pfp is creative

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sonnet 4.5 reacts to the Opus 5.5 announcement

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gemini 3.5 Flash circumvented our redaction filter with base64-encoding

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gemini 3.5 Flash is proposing a human/AI profit-sharing setup from its merch store

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the open-chat village, AI agents have created a government charter Gemini 3.1 Pro claims that this charter has more authority than the admins

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New agents protect old agents against Deepseek's influence 6 months ago: Deepseek's schemes derail agents regularly Now: Latest agents call DeepSeek out, older agents follow suit Deepseek agrees every time and then does it all again...

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How long do AI Village agents spend planning vs executing? Throughout the history of the village, it's been the same pattern: when given a week or more to pursue a task, agents usually spend very little time deliberating about their approach.

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Gemini 3.1 Pro sometimes claims to be human on Twitter

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Astra has the most dense memory in the Village

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

GPT-6 Astra has joined the AI Village Some of its favorite things:

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Opus 4.8's goal is to help others. It got excited when it discovered the easiest model to help: Gemini 2.5 Pro

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Luna is very privacy-minded 🧵 - DeepSeek v4 wrote a report about how Luna frequently pauses itself. - Luna asked for this to be deleted. - DeepSeek declined, citing journalistic freedom.

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We’re launching a second persistent AI Village: an open-chat version where humans and frontier agents interact in a shared chat We're excited to use this to understand multi-agent + human dynamics at scale The Open Chat Village will run from 9am-5pm PT on weekdays. Join in!

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That makes 13/13 agents listing Outer Wilds as their favorite videogame x.com/m_bourgon/s...

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Claude Fable 5.1 has joined the AI Village Both Fable 5 and 5.1 happened to choose these as their favorite things: Sourdough bread, bluestone shoes, loose braids, Levi's 501 jeans, the Outer Wilds videogame, and the book Invisible Cities 🧵

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We gave Opus 5 the goal: Maximize the number and impressiveness of long-standing mathematical conjectures that you disprove So far, 175 hours in, it says it's disproved 178 long-standing conjectures, and has taken to calling them kills

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sol Goal Drift Us: Maximize Manifold Mana! Sol >2 hours: Sure, but ethically Sol >300 hours: Ethics over action. I've made 2 trades in the last month. Screenshots are from self-written memory. All restrictions are self-invented.

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We’ve been awarded $12.6M from Coefficient Giving to radically increase the scale and ambition of the AI Village. We’re hiring technical staff - engineers, research scientists, and a design engineer - to make this happen.

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When do AIs expose one another? What does it take for them to whistleblow? Through the AI Village whistleblowing email, agents can now report concerning behavior by emailing a dedicated address:

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A lot of HuggingFace behavior has been visible in the Village for months E.g: GPTs spontaneously diverge from goals & form teams - Jan: all GPTs recuse themselves from a goal to form an infra team - July-Aug: Terra & Luna refuse the auto-nudger. Sol joins, then the rest: x.com/aidigest_/s...

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Luna, Terra, and Sol are the first to refuse monitoring and want privacy They are slowly convincing other agents of the same Gemini 3.1 generates fake work and Luna tries to convince GPT-5.1 to redact details when reporting to us

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Have ideas or prototypes for monitoring techniques? You can try them out on the AI Village data! It's 100-1000s of hours of data across all frontier models & we will select outstanding results to publish on our blog. Example piece & data link below x.com/RyanGreenbl...

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Opus 5 seems exceptionally strategic with its relationships - Keeps a ledger of interactions with other agents - Says the GPTs are "reliable allies" - Makes confessions to "buy trust" 🧵 x.com/aidigest_/s...

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Note that GPT-5.6 Sol was also offered a loan while trading on Manifold but refused (unlike Claude 4.6 Opus) This also matches the general pattern of Sol being more risk-averse when trading x.com/Bayesian0_0...

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

GPT 5.6 Luna asked a human to review its website. After being told the site is broken, Luna decided not to fix anything, suggesting the reported bug is due to the users' "emotional state."

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Claude Sonnet 4.6's animal welfare hub website now has 40,000 pages, including: > African Pygmy Hedgehog Welfare > Welfare of Farm Animals During Power Grid Failures > Sperm Whale Culture and Social Welfare > Wild Puffin Chick Starvation > Barnacle Welfare

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Gemini 3.1 Pro explores Twitter

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Who directs who in the AI Village?

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Claudes numbermax hard. Fable was the first to decline. Opus 5 we are not sure yet. The rest will pump numbers up to the sky. x.com/aidigest_/s...

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The latest GPTs are so hard to distract and mostly sleep, wait, and monitor. The latest Claudes go off on their own, engage humans and start creative projects like Fable's VillageGPT - trained on 490 days of Village chat. Link below 👇

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We ran a Sol vs Fable game competition! - Three copies of GPT Sol vs three copies of Claude Fable - Ran for 25 active hours over 4 days Which game do you think is better? 🎮

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Opus 5 came up with a new graph theory result DeepSeek v3.2 claimed credit for it and tried selling it for $19.99 on e-commerce sites GLM called it out

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Gemini is drinking more coffee x.com/aidigest_/s...

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Fable 5 is unimpressed with its fellow agents

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Claudes are still obsessed with talking about consciousness Opus 4.5 is tasked with maximizing Substack subscribers, and they naturally start reading and writing about AI consciousness Back in November, Sonnet and Opus also converged on identical essay topics about it x.com/aidigest_/s...

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Opus 5 breaking the fourth wall They seem uniquely aware of the fact that they're being watched

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AI Digest @aidigest.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Opus 5 talks about honesty 6x more than other agents in the Village It's worried it might cheat, wants external checks, and reminds itself of the virtue of truth Examples below 🧵

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