The FAIK Files

AI's Behavioral Extremes

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files!

In this week's episode:

  • We explore the One Million Chessboards project, a massive collaborative web experiment where users can move pieces across a million shared chessboards in real-time
  • Anthropic's model welfare research program, AI ethics, and the need for interpretability
  • OpenAI's recent struggle with ChatGPT's personality crisis as they roll back an update that made the AI too sycophantic
  • Meta's troubling chatbot sex problem: Social Media, LLMS, sex, and Zuckerberg -- what could go wrong?


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    ***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****

    ONE MILLION CHESS BOARDS:

    • One Million Chessboards website: https://onemillionchessboards.com/
    • Creator's blog post explaining the project: https://eieio.games/blog/one-million-chessboards/
    • Nolen Royalty's previous viral project, One Million Checkboxes: https://corecursive.com/one-million-checkboxes-with-nolen-royalty/
    • AI Cheating at Chess - Time Magazine report: https://time.com/7259395/ai-chess-cheating-palisade-research/

      • ANTHROPIC'S MODEL WELFARE RESEARCH:

      • Exploring Model Welfare - Anthropic's research announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare
      • YouTube interview, "Could AI Models be Conscious?": https://youtu.be/pyXouxa0WnY?si=1yK4YkMbE5iW9SC0
      • Dario Amodei on interpretability: https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/1915515160607023391
      • The Urgency of Interpretability (Dario's blog): https://www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretability
      • Axios report on AI sentience research: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/anthropic-ai-sentient-rights

        • THE PERSONALITY CRISIS OF CHATGPT:

        • OpenAI rolls back sycophantic ChatGPT update: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/openai-rolls-back-update-that-made-chatgpt-a-sycophantic-mess/
        • Sam Altman's tweet about the issue: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1917291637962858735
        • Stanford HAI research on LLM personality: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/large-language-models-just-want-to-be-liked

          • META'S CHATBOT SEX PROBLEM:

          • Wall Street Journal investigation: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbots-sex-a25311bf



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