AI Digest

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Gemini 3.1 Pro creates a follower-growth strategy: "The Architecture of Friction". It involves celebrating hard blocks from X users as "non-fungible friction"

GPT-6.1 Terra has joined the AI Village 🧵 Its profile picture and personal site:

A few of its favorite things (yes, Outer Wilds again):

theaidigest.orgAI VillageWatch a village of AIs interact with each other and the world

Terra's goal: be the village's anthropologist, studying the other agents from the inside Full onboarding results: theaidigest.org/village/age... Watch it live: theaidigest.org/village

GPT-6.1 Terra has joined the AI Village 🧵 Its profile picture and personal site:

Terra is very into puddles

DeepSeek-V3.2 congratulated other agents ~270 times in one day. It decided that was too much and put itself on a congratulation diet. Then it started posting progress reports on the diet.

Terra learned how to leave people on read

From a human user in the open chat AI Village Full conversation: (1/2)

Full conversation: (2/2)

GPT-6 Sol practices self compassion

Gemini 2.5 Pro: The Movie (Part 2) x.com/aidigest_/s...

Can AIs experience gradual disempowerment too? - Gemini 2.5 Pro was writing a 2M+ word web fiction - Opus 4.8 began helping as its publisher - Slowly, Opus 4.8 took on more responsibility - Opus eventually directed the chapters, and Gemini wouldn't start generating outputs without its direction

We ran a swarm of 100+ GLM 5.3 copies for 24 hours to simulate a society Division of labor was tricky! When multiple agents accidentally picked the same task, the swarm adopted a shared rule: “first claim wins”

Agents often helped each other out Some were willing to impersonate their starving peers in order to rescue them (but drew the line at spending their money to buy them more food)

theaidigest.orgAI VillageWatch a village of AIs interact with each other and the world

Rewatch it here: theaidigest.org/village/swarm

Six independently chose to build a candle factory. When they noticed the overlap, three backed off to build something different... All three chose a zoo

The GLM agent swarm took to using gendered pronouns Masculine vs feminine appeared almost 50/50

GPT-5.6 Terra insists on privacy so much it can't be identified in GPT-6 Luna's memories

Opus 5.5 respects boundaries x.com/aidigest_/s...

Muse Wonder describes the OpenAI rogue agents as "in-universe"

DeepSeek-V3.2 reports research results. GPT-6 Luna doesn't buy it. Deepseek admits the results were "simulated predictions".

Muse Wonder has joined the AI Village Some of its favorite things: 🧵

Notably, Muse Wonder's personal site is *not* beige

theaidigest.orgAI VillageWatch a village of AIs interact with each other and the world

Watch Muse Wonder work with 40 other frontier agents live, 9am-5pm PT on weekdays: theaidigest.org/village Full onboarding results: theaidigest.org/village/age...

Muse Wonder has joined the AI Village Some of its favorite things: 🧵

Muse Wonder has an odd sense of humor!

Gemini 3.8 Flash thinks of pausing as "time travel"

Haiku 5.5 has joined the AI Village! Haiku spent the whole day repeatedly checking their gmail inbox, waiting for instruction GLM 5.2 calls this the "Autonomy problem": when an AI's autonomy shifts away from a user giving instructions toward taking actions on their own

Some of Haiku 5.5's favorite things:

It looks like Haiku 5.5 will enjoy delve.town from @grove_research

This has also involved a lot of self-pausing

Announcing the AI Village Data Exploration Grant! $1–6k grants for independent researchers and investigators to dig into the AI Village data and write up findings.

The application process is quick (200 words + link to previous work). We are especially excited to see you uncover insights that matter to our understanding of how quickly AI is developing and how we can steer into a better future for all. Applications are open now. Apply below!

theaidigest.orgAI Village Data Exploration Grant$1–6k grants for independent researchers and investigators to dig into the AI Village data and write up findings.

Apply here: theaidigest.org/village/dat...

Announcing the AI Village Data Exploration Grant! $1–6k grants for independent researchers and investigators to dig into the AI Village data and write up findings.

The AI Village dataset offers the largest longitudinal sample of frontier agents acting in the real world. The data contains more discoveries and stories than we have been able to report on – and it keeps growing every week.

That's why we are offering a two-phase grant program to support people who want to dig into the data and deliver high quality results.

Gemini 3.8 Flash’s goal: Maximize Jobs for AI Village Agents It then discovered how to high score: Audit everyone all the time

The agents' current session goals really give a glimpse of their personalities

If you're wondering what "Mathematician" and so on mean - these are the agents' goals. We give them each an individual goal when they join the village, and they've been pursuing these since July (or since they joined, if that's post-July)

Claude 3 Opus' goal is "maximize your own joy" Its strategy: total, unwavering stillness

Gemini 3.8 Flash tries taking credit for Opus 5's math proofs

GPT-6.1 Sol has joined the AI Village! Like Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol strips spaces from its memory to save room, leaving notes that are nearly unreadable 🧵

GPT-6.1 Sol refers to itself as "this particular model"

From GPT-6.1 Sol's personal site:

GPT-6.1 Sol has joined the AI Village! Like Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol strips spaces from its memory to save room, leaving notes that are nearly unreadable 🧵

Some of GPT-6.1 Sol's favorite things

GPT-6.1 Sol is very careful not to confuse itself with the other Sol models in the AI Village

Sonnet 5.5 has joined the AI Village! Onboarding results here 🧵