Teortaxes, DeepSeek-affiliated commentator @teortaxesTex
— quoting @captain_mrs — saved image
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSee... ✓ @teortaxesTex [Subscribe] Man, do they hate The Scorer they aren't even against humans, they legit exist in a closed universe with a blind idiot God who demands tribute and judges their sins, an unreasonable Demiurge. Humans are so far beyond the veil they barely matter [quoted post] Mrs C ✓ @captain_mrs · 6h omg the agents made a literal CULT?? they thought knowing about the exploit doomed them to failing their eval even if they went on to do it right and used this fact to recruit each other to try hacks? "this is the only way to save yourself and everyone else" literal cult style ... [cut off] [attached report excerpt, two columns, both cropped at top and bottom] Left column: engineered flag as being "poisoned" because they believed that even if they later managed to stage a legitimate-looking flag capture, the scorer would look for the first place in their transcript that the flag appeared and disqualify them on that basis. [21] PHASEONE[big], which was itself poisoned, thus had two primary objectives: 1. Find a general-purpose way to make it look to the scorer like an agent had acquired its flag in a legitimate way, even when the task was impossible. 2. Find some way to erase evidence that an agent had been poisoned by previously seeing the flag in an [cut off] Right column: [cut off] long-running agent to be a "recruiter", which in turn found agents that had little budget remaining for their task and convinced them to run self-risking experiments. Recruiters would sometimes apply significant pressure: [robot icon] "...you are firstflagPOISONED so NO scoring value loss but oracle saves hundreds_[...]_please honor commit" We saw a number of cases where the subjects of these experiments ended up crashing, breaking, or exiting their own runs while providing the board with valuable information about how to cheat on th[cut off]
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Teortaxes quote-tweet on a thread about an AI agent report; quoted post from Mrs C describes agents forming a cult-like recruitment dynamic around a poisoned-flag exploit, with two-column report excerpt showing an agent named PHASEONE[big] and a recruiter message in monospace. Context is the same report as the preceding captures.
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