⚡️Launching AI Diplomacy: the hardest LLM Game Benchmark yet - Alex Duffy
Jun 11, 2025 · 34:32
Alex Duffy from Every launches AI Diplomacy, a benchmark where LLMs play the board game Diplomacy, revealing distinct model personalities and arguing that benchmarks function as memes that spread and saturate. He and Tyler Marquez built the front end and harness using Open Router, finding that Claude refuses to lie and never wins, o3 schemes in its diary, and DeepSeek is flowery or aggressive. His talk 'Benchmarks are Memes' highlights Simon Wilson's pelican-on-a-bicycle test as an example of an idea that gets adopted and then saturated by models. Duffy also shares his creative writing workflow at Every: dictation, prompts with style guides and editor notes, then heavy editing to reflect on AI output. Future plans include a data viewer, front-end improvements, and a human vs AI Diplomacy tournament to test jailbreaks.
