The FAIK Files Prompt Wars, AI Cognition & Video Deception
Apr 4, 2025
Dive into the thrilling world of Prompt Wars, where players craft prompts to outsmart AI in an intense battle of wits. Explore the fascinating advancements in AI cognition and digital neuroscience, revealing how machines learn and create. Discover Mason's low-effort podcast knowledge base experiment and the dark side of AI, including the risks posed by deepfakes and deceptive video chatbots. This discussion highlights not just the innovations but the ethical challenges and potential dangers of AI in our lives.
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Prompt Wars
- Mason introduces Prompt Wars, an LLM-based game inspired by Core Wars.
- Players craft prompts ("spells") to compete against others, aiming to have their prompt echoed back by the LLM.
Visibility Paradox
- Prompt Wars presents a "visibility paradox": successful prompts reveal themselves to others.
- The better a prompt performs, the more it's exposed, creating a trade-off between effectiveness and secrecy.
Pirate Spell Experiment
- Mason experimented with a "pirate stuff" spell in Prompt Wars.
- It included pirate phrases, scoring points for each use, but the opponent's prompt still dominated.