One brutal Minecraft night scared 50 AI agents into inventing chicken handoff protocols, a Fertilizer Officer, and fishing shifts

“In experiments by Y Combinator Labs and Olam Labs, OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol model showed two very different sides. When 50 agents were tasked with peaceful civilization-building in Minecraft, they froze up in absurd bureaucracy.”

— The Decoder

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• Original reportThe DecoderNov 2, 23:42Read report from The Decoder →

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Filed under Model releases, score 39/100. It carries the OpenAI tag, so it sits with the rest of that vendor's coverage on the board.

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