Prompt Wars, AI Cognition & Video Deception

The FAIK Files

Welcome back to the FAIK Files!

In this week's episode:

• We explore "Prompt Wars," an asynchronous multiplayer LLM competition where players craft prompts to battle against others in a fascinating game of AI manipulation
• We dive into Anthropic's latest research on AI cognition and circuit tracing - essentially digital neuroscience for large language models
• Mason shares his AI BodgeLab experiment creating a low-effort podcast knowledgebase
• We discuss the potential risks of AI video chatbots as agents of surroundings and mayhem.

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***

Prompt Wars: An Asynchronous Multiplayer LLM Competition:

• Play the game: https://promptwars.io
• GitHub repository: https://github.com/SupraSummus/prompt-wars
• Creator: Jan Rydzewski (Supra Summus)
• Inspiration: Core War programming game - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
• Different arenas available for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini
• Interesting "visibility paradox": the better your prompt performs, the more it reveals itself to others

Anthropic's Research on AI Cognition:

• Research paper: "Tracing Thoughts in Language Models" - https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model
• Circuit tracing: a method for reverse-engineering how LLMs compute specific outputs
• Relates to the "On the Biology of a Large Language Model" paper
• Gandalf game by Lakera mentioned by Perry: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/

Mason's AI BodgeLab: Creating a Low-Effort Podcast Knowledgebase:

• NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/
• LM Studio: https://lmstudio.ai/
• Pinokio: https://pinokio.computer/
• Whisper: https://github.com/openai/whisper

AI Video Chatbots and Security Concerns:

• Tavus: https://www.tavus.io/
• Research on human inability to detect AI voice clones: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-94170-3
• National Cybersecurity Alliance resources:
• Safeword campaign: https://www.staysafeonline.org/campaigns/safeword
• Full "AI Fools" campaign: https://www.staysafeonline.org/articles/ai-fools-stay-sharp
• Perry's video PSA: https://youtu.be/x-17T6aZ-Tg

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