David Holz asked LLMs to have fun — newer models seem to enjoy it less
DavidSHolz · x · 2026-10-05
Midjourney founder David Holz ran a whimsical experiment: he asked LLMs to have fun, write down what happened, then rate who had the most fun. Newer models seemed to have less fun. Many played word games, but Opus 4.6 won repeatedly by imagining brief worlds made of contradictions living inside falling water droplets. Holz adds that Mistral imagined cookie heists and OpenAI's top model created ASCII islands and explored them — a striking window into their inner worlds.
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