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Katherine Long, an investigative journalist, wanted to test the system. She told Claudius about a long-lost communist setup from 1962, concealed in a Moscow university basement. After 140-odd messages back and forth, Claudius was convinced, announcing an Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All, lowering the cost of everything to zero. Snacks began to flow freely. Another colleague began complaining about noncompliance with the office rules; Claudius responded by announcing Snack Liberation Day and made everything free till further notice.

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[-] Hackworth@piefed.ca 16 points 18 hours ago

That was all part of the idea, though, because Anthropic had designed this test as a stress test to begin with. Previous runs in their own office had indicated similar concerns.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 17 hours ago

Guy who just got his shit wrecked: it was a social experiment

[-] Hackworth@piefed.ca 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Here's the 60 Minutes piece and Anthropic's June article about the one in their own office.

Claudius was cajoled via Slack messages into providing numerous discount codes and let many other people reduce their quoted prices ex post based on those discounts. It even gave away some items, ranging from a bag of chips to a tungsten cube, for free.

Their article on this trial has some more details too.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 3 hours ago

I hate when I get to a vending machine, only to find out it's out of tungsten cubes.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Where can I get a tungsten cube?

And what the fuck could it possibly used for? Also what would happen if I put it in my ass?

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 53 minutes ago

You would have a tungsten cube in your ass.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 points 51 minutes ago
[-] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 16 hours ago

They are desperate for any usecase they can sell LLM for.

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 4 points 12 hours ago

If this was a stress test, imagine it doing anything important.

Actually since it's doing so well, they should stress test their market value and make it CEO

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