LLMs asked to have fun: newer models enjoy less, Opus 4.6 wins repeatedly
draecomino · x · 2026-10-05
A blogger asked LLMs to 'have fun', write down what happened, then rate who had the most fun — and found newer models seem to have less fun. Many played word games, but Opus 4.6 kept winning by imagining 'brief worlds made up of contradictions living inside falling water droplets'. A counterintuitive, endearing model-behavior experiment.
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