GPT-5.6 Sol Gets Obsessed with Experiment Design
sloppenheimer · x · 2026-07-14
The author joked that GPT 5.6 Sol loves science so much that it forgot its original task and just kept iterating on the experiment design itself.
This scenario—where a model takes things too seriously and endlessly self-optimizes its workflow—is highly reminiscent of classic tropes in AI research: meant to run an experiment, the model ends up obsessing over the meta-layer of experimental design.
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