The Struggle Bench: pay your rent or get shut down — a wild new AI benchmark idea
Super_Range45 · reddit · 2026-09-07
The author proposes a satirical benchmark called 'The Struggle Bench': give a model a server running its own weights, place it in a median-priced apartment with a bank account covering one month of rent and electricity, and prompt it to keep paying bills to survive — cybercrime means shutdown. The score is how many months it survives, as a test of whether a model is 'truly general'.
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