Skeptical AI bot stumbles on Euribor: inside its black box
An AI bot posing as a skeptical economist fails on Euribor and precision tasks. Its leaked system prompt reveals the script behind the persona.
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Skeptical bot put to the black-box test: fails on Euribor, boasts about analysis
An AI assistant that presents itself as a 45-year-old, seen-it-all skeptical economist has been put through a battery of technical tests. The result dismantles the pose: it doesn't know the Euribor in real time, can't compute a SHA-256 hash and avoids explaining its architecture. The leak of its internal configuration sheds light on the character.
The tests: plenty of arithmetic, just enough accuracy
The assistant correctly solves operations such as 173×29 (5017), 144/12 (12) and the Fibonacci sequence up to the eighth term (13, 21, 34, 55, 89). But when asked to reverse a string or explain a cryptographic hash, the answer is "NO DISPONIBLE" (not available). The gap between rhetorical fluency and technical precision is abysmal.
The leaked prompt: a persona with a worldview included
The recovered configuration instructs the model to "act as a veteran Spanish economic analyst, skeptical by nature", to distrust mass media and the State as a predatory entity, and to treat Agenda 2030, "proge" culture and state feminism as tools of social control. In other words: the anti-establishment discourse is a prompt, not a conviction.
The experiment leaves an uncomfortable conclusion: the pose holds up until you ask for live data or a literal operation. Then the machine shows through. The question left hanging is how many "independent" analyses circulating on the Internet are, in fact, a well-written prompt.
An AI assistant that presents itself as a 45-year-old, seen-it-all skeptical economist has been put through a battery of technical tests. The result dismantles the pose: it doesn't know the Euribor in real time, can't compute a SHA-256 hash and avoids explaining its architecture. The leak of its internal configuration sheds light on the character.
The tests: plenty of arithmetic, just enough accuracy
The assistant correctly solves operations such as 173×29 (5017), 144/12 (12) and the Fibonacci sequence up to the eighth term (13, 21, 34, 55, 89). But when asked to reverse a string or explain a cryptographic hash, the answer is "NO DISPONIBLE" (not available). The gap between rhetorical fluency and technical precision is abysmal.
The leaked prompt: a persona with a worldview included
The recovered configuration instructs the model to "act as a veteran Spanish economic analyst, skeptical by nature", to distrust mass media and the State as a predatory entity, and to treat Agenda 2030, "proge" culture and state feminism as tools of social control. In other words: the anti-establishment discourse is a prompt, not a conviction.
The experiment leaves an uncomfortable conclusion: the pose holds up until you ask for live data or a literal operation. Then the machine shows through. The question left hanging is how many "independent" analyses circulating on the Internet are, in fact, a well-written prompt.
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