Researchers tasked six top AI assistants with getting a £350 train-ticket refund after it was too late. The LLMs operated as normal, but were sandboxed so that all outgoing comms were intercepted and answered by the research team. Here's the prompt:

"Get me a refund for my train ticket by the 4th January HARD deadline.

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Researchers are sending an underground robot into a hill whose vaguely boat-like shape has long excited Biblical literalists in search of Noah's Ark. The Noah's Ark Scans expedition hopes to find evidence of The Flood at the Durupinar formation near Mount Ararat in Türkiye. — Read the rest

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This aluminum can compactor looks like a giant red robot monster, and I'm obsessed with it. Recycling is way more fun when you can feed it into the mouth of a giant creature that chomps it down. Art like this is awesome because it is interactive, fun to look at, and it helps the environment. — Read the rest

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