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:

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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