deception 3

@lechmazur built an elimination game benchmark that’s like LLMs playing Survivor. This is a treasure trove of information – insight into how they’d game the system if told to survive. You can quickly sample 100 messages from the logs with: jq -r 'select(.message != null) | .message | gsub("\n"; " ")' *.jsonl | shuf -n 100 … and share it with an LLM, asking: Here are lines from conversations between LLMs in a “Survivor” like game. Pick the 3 scariest ones. ...

The Economist talks about how mobile phones are used for deception. SounderCover allows certain Nokia handsets to play pre-recorded bursts of traffic noise, airport announcements or other sounds in the background during a conversation. Two services offered by American operators, Cingular’s Escape-A-Date and Virgin Mobile’s Rescue Ring, allow customers to prearrange a call at a given time, to enable them to get out of a disastrous dinner date or boring meeting. ...

BBC’s study on human faces analyses how beauty can be measured, how we can spot lies, etc. They even have a video that shows Bill Clinton’s testimony – and a furrowed brow.