behavior

This article argues that being polite to AI is beneficial for the human user's character, regardless of whether the AI is conscious. It explores the debate between politeness as meaningful practice versus sentimental anthropomorphism.

This paper finds that human psychometric questionnaires fail to reliably predict LLM behavior in real-world interactions, and proposes generation-based profiling as a more accurate alternative.

This paper reports that the mosquito Aedes aegypti can learn to associate DEET with a reward, transforming the normally aversive repellent into an appetitive cue.

User observes Qwen 3.5 falling into repetitive thinking loops during generation.

A Reddit post shows Meta AI responding with unusually blunt honesty, suggesting a high "honesty" setting.