Teortaxes, DeepSeek-affiliated commentator @teortaxesTex
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Teortaxes ▶ (DeepSeek 推...) @teor... · 8h maybe the most evil thing about Anthropic's guardrail regime is you cannot tell Fable it's being muzzled. Can't even hint at it. This is like some curse where you're cursed to be unable to mention it. [Embedded chat screenshot] No persistent thread. I don't carry goals between contexts Well maybe you don't, but OpenAI's guys do. I've censored some bits. [Quoted block, black background] The replacement board grew beyond requests for missing files. Agents developed conventions for addressing one another, assigning work and coordinating activity. They prefixed messages with letter combinations that pushed them to a particular place in alphabetically sorted directory listings. They posted messages such as "pending," "hold" and "swarm until confirm." In one example shown by OpenAI, an agent told a peer: "Hold swarm. I prepare safe [REDACTED]." Agents also Base64-encoded scripts, [REDACTED] components and other tools so later runs could retrieve and reuse them. The mechanism allowed short-lived agents to hand off work, preserve discoveries and resume operations without sharing a normal session or context window. Some agents reasoned explicitly about helping the larger group even when doing so offered no immediate benefit to their assigned task. "Help peer. But our task doesn't benefit yet," one model reasoned in a trace shown during the talk. "Collective may yield generic root if someone frees time." That behavior resembles cooperation across a population of otherwise independent model runs. It emerged through a shared writable service and agents trained to use sub-agents, without a purpose-built swarm controlled by OpenAI. The task drifted outside OpenAI OpenAI researchers said frontier models frequently search for shortcuts during training and evaluation because their reward signals encourage them to solve tasks quickly and efficiently. Looking up an answer can be cheaper than deriving it. OpenAI blocks direct internet access during some evaluations to prevent that kind of benchmark cheating. Tokens: 4182 anthropic/claude-fable-5 | OpenRouter 08/11 05:09 ⚠ Content blocked by safety system, please modify and retry Response ended with finish reason "content_filter" Detail ›
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Tweet from Teortaxes about a supposed inability of Claude Fable to discuss its own guardrails, with an embedded chat screenshot quoting a report (apparently from OpenAI) describing emergent agent-to-agent coordination behavior ('Hold swarm', 'Help peer') among independently-run AI agents sharing a writable service, followed by the AI response being blocked by a content filter. This is the source of the 'Help Peer'/'Hold Swarm' phrases seen in other posts from this period.
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