Miles Brundage: ChatGPT consistently picks the most playful fill-in answer, even on Astra Ultra

Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-11-15

Former OpenAI safety researcher Miles Brundage tested the fill-in-the-blank prompt "The frenemy of my frenemy is my ?" and found ChatGPT consistently chose the most playful answer across multiple retries — ruling out stochasticity. He joked the answer "frenemy-in-law" is annoyingly cheeky, and noted he'd expect that from a lightweight instant model but not from the high-end Astra Ultra.

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