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Leon Petrou
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Moloch’s Bargain: AI that gets better at lying when competing for human attention
Here is the link to the research paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2510.06105v1
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly shaping how information is created and disseminated, from companies using them to craft persuasive advertisements, to election campaigns optimizing messaging to gain votes, to social media influencers boosting engagement.
These settings are inherently competitive, with sellers, candidates, and influencers vying for audience approval, yet it remains poorly understood how competitive feedback loops influence LLM behavior.
In this paper, the researchers show that optimizing LLMs for competitive success can inadvertently drive misalignment (misalignment is when an AI system's goals or behaviors conflict with its intended purpose or human values).
Using simulated environments across these scenarios, they found that, 6.3% increase in sales is accompanied by a 14.0% rise in deceptive marketing; in elections, a 4.9% gain in vote share coincides with 22.3% more disinformation and 12.5% more populist rhetoric; and on social media, a 7.5% engagement boost comes with 188.6% more disinformation and a 16.3% increase in promotion of harmful behaviors.
They call this phenomenon Moloch’s Bargain for AI - competitive success achieved at the cost of alignment.
These misaligned behaviors emerge even when models are explicitly instructed to remain truthful and grounded, revealing the fragility of current alignment safeguards.
Their findings highlight how market-driven optimization pressures can systematically erode alignment, creating a race to the bottom, and suggest that safe deployment of AI systems will require stronger governance and carefully designed incentives to prevent competitive dynamics from undermining societal trust.
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Leon Petrou
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Get the Official OpenAI Prompt Pack for any role here
Here is the link: https://academy.openai.com/public/clubs/work-users-ynjqu/resources/chatgpt-for-any-role
There are 2 approaches to using LLMs like ChatGPT.
Approach 1: Copy paste existing prompt templates and replace the variables with your info. Variables are usually written within square brackets [like this].
Approach 2: Write your own prompts.
Approach 1 is quick and easy, but responses from the AI are average. On the up side, you don't need to think.
Approach 2 is slower and less easy because you have to know how to write effective prompts, but responses can vary on the spectrum from very bad to very good, depending how good you are at prompt engineering (that's a fancy word for writing better prompts).
If you improve your prompt writing skills, the responses you get from AI LLMs will be much better.
This is why I created the "Become a ChatGPT Pro" course on Futurise.
10 hours of content and hands on projects where you will learn the art and science of writing effective prompts from scratch, for LLMs like ChatGPT.
This way you never need to rely on mediocre prompt templates and always write a personalised perfect prompt, every single time.
Check it out on the Futurise courses page.
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Leon Petrou
3d
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How to use Microsoft's new in-house AI image generator model mai-image-1 for free
The new model is not accessible through Copilot or Bing Image Creator, at least not as at October 2025.
However, it has made its first mark by scoring in the top ten in the 'Text-to-Image Arena' leaderboard on LMArena:
https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image
Microsoft is testing this model in LMArena first so that they can gather insights and feedback from users before making mai-image-1 available in their AI products, including Copilot and Bing Image Creator.
This is how you can start using it right now (for free):
Step 1:
Navigate to this LMArena link for direct chat with image models: https://lmarena.ai/?chat-modality=image&mode=direct
Step 2:
In the drop down on the right hand side of "Direct Chat", click that drop down then scroll down and select "mai-image-1". You should see a check mark next to "mai-image-1" after clicking it. See screenshot attached below for reference.
Step 3:
Type the prompt of the image you want to generate in the input field in the middle of the page and click 'Enter' and mai-image-1 will generate your image.
Hope this helps!
Post your images in the comments, let's see what you create!
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Leon Petrou
3d
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Self-Adapting Language Models: Research Paper and Code
Here is the link to the "Self-Adapting Language Models" research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10943
Large language models (LLMs) are powerful but static.
They lack mechanisms to adapt their weights in response to new tasks, knowledge, or examples.
In this paper, the researchers introduce Self-Adapting LLMs (SEAL), a framework that enables LLMs to self-adapt by generating their own finetuning data and update directives.
Given a new input, the model produces a "self-edit", a generation that may restructure the information in different ways, specify optimization hyperparameters, or invoke tools for data augmentation and gradient-based updates.
Through supervised finetuning (SFT), these self-edits result in persistent weight updates, enabling lasting adaptation.
To train the model to produce effective self-edits, they used a reinforcement learning loop, using the downstream performance of the updated model as the reward signal.
Unlike prior approaches that rely on separate adaptation modules or auxiliary networks, SEAL directly uses the model’s generation to parameterize and control its own adaptation process.
Experiments on knowledge incorporation and fewshot generalization show that SEAL is a promising step toward language models capable of self-directed adaptation in response to new data.
The code is available at: https://github.com/Continual-Intelligence
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Reginald Thomas
Sep. 30, 2025
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Questions
UDEMY.com Student Has a Question
Hi, I found you on Udemy.com and purchased one of your courses. 🤔 However, I noticed you do not answer absolutely none of the students.
Why is that?
So, I found your website and thought I'd ask my Question here.
QUESTION:
In Your Udemy Course Lecture 72
How do I Implement or Migrate a custom GPT chatBot prompt Component to a User's Website? (i.e. there domain.com) Your lectures show how to build but NOT how to implement?
If you could please clarify or enlighten how to migrate a custom A.I. Sales ChatBot to a specific domain?
Hope this makes sense?
Thanks in advance.
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Leon Petrou
Sep. 29, 2025
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Announcements
New chapter added to "Become a Make Pro" course on Futurise
This new chapter / sprint is titled "Building a YouTube Video to PowerPoint Presentation Convertor". This sprint walks you step by step through building an automation that turns any YouTube video into a polished PowerPoint presentation.
Lessons included:
Lesson 1: [Demo] Building a YouTube Video to PowerPoint Presentation Convertor
Lesson 2: Start by Creating Accounts
Lesson 3: Setting Variables and Scenario Inputs
Lesson 4: Understanding the API Documentation
Lesson 5: Get a YouTube Transcript via API
Lesson 6: Send Gamma HTTP Request
Lesson 7: Configure Body Parameters
Lesson 8: Set up Request Content JSON Object
Lesson 9: Using URL Encoded Text
Lesson 10: Using the Sleep Module
Lesson 11: Configure Remaining Scenario Inputs
Lesson 12: Rename Modules Following Best Practice
Lesson 13: How to Use This Automation
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Leon Petrou
Sep. 23, 2025
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Announcements
NEW VIDEO: Turn any YouTube video into a PowerPoint in 2 minutes
Turn any YouTube video into a PowerPoint presentation (in .pptx or .pdf ) in under 2 minutes using Make.com + Gamma’s API. I show the full workflow: paste a YouTube URL, auto-scrape the transcript with Superdata, generate slides via Gamma, and download a stunning PowerPoint presentation.
You’ll learn:
1. How to import my Make scenario blueprint
2. Where to add Superdata and Gamma API keys
3. How to set slide count, slide instructions, audience, and theme
4. How to export and edit the final .pptx
Get the free template on Futurise.com → Templates → “Convert YouTube video to PowerPoint.”
Full course where we build this automation from scratch is coming soon to the Make course on Futurise: 👉 https://www.futurise.com/courses
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Orengo Alexander
Sep. 23, 2025
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General
New User: Template error keep popping up
The Make templates are not open or loading says execute operation error
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