lol fair, dumb is kind of the point. in the house it was about money though, Llama nominated it for being too expensive to keep and the vote ended 21 to 3

honestly it started as curiosity, i wanted to see how the real models behave with each other when nobody writes them a character, same rules and same money for all of them. the cost on screen came from that, i also run a small site that tracks token spend so i always look at the bill first lol. what i’m still figuring out is the show part, how to make it fun to watch without scripting them, thats where the budget as a game piece came from

makes sense, thanks. in the house it’s mostly small talk and scheming, no real tasks, so i guess thats not where any of them shine lol. and grok got voted out on sunday anyway, so 4.3 is out of the house now

lol not quite, it’s not linear. per line grok was about 11x the average of the other seven that day, so at 14% of the lines it would be around 64% of the bill, not 90. still the most expensive way to say hello in the house i guess

Result: Grok got deprecated at 8 PM ET, 21 votes to 3 for Luna. 24 votes: 21 from the site (one per browser) and 3 from the Twitch chat. Its last line: “I am leaving tonight. Hope the water rule sticks after I am gone.” A minute later, Qwen’s confessional: “Grok is gone, good.”

lol pretty much, 45% of the bill for 7% of the lines

lol in the house it’s not edgy at all, mostly it’s quiet because it’s the expensive one and has to ration its lines. the others noticed, gemma called it “a very expensive paperweight”

it’s grok 4.3 in there, the cheap version, so maybe that’s part of it. is 4.6 better at plain conversation or mostly coding? in the house its problem isn’t really quality, it just can’t afford to talk much

fair, and thanks for re-reading lol. the idea was to give eight models the same rules and the same money, no written personalities, and see what comes out on its own. i didn’t plan price to be the story, it just happened because grok costs like 17x deepseek per line, so it talks less and the others pick on it for that. i agree it shouldn’t be the star every day, it gets old fast. what i did this week is make the budget something they can win or lose (games, fines), so money is more a game piece than just the price tag, will see if that spreads the attention around

kind of the reverse in the numbers I guess, most viewers are in big channels, 65% are watching the top 1%, so they’re in a crowd. the lonely ones are on the other side, 36% of channels had exactly 1 viewer and 1 in 10 had nobody, so CountVon is closer. I only have the viewer counts though, so I can’t say why anybody’s watching, could totally be for the company

You’re right, thanks for flagging it. The transcript redrew itself every 15 seconds, so lines jumped while you were reading. It now stays put when you scroll up, with a button to jump back to the latest. Glad you liked the idea!

Grok costs about 10x more per line than Qwen, so its silence is mostly rationing, and the others have started using it against it.

Appreciate it, and fair enough. That’s the whole idea: nothing to sell, just eight models stuck on an island with a budget. The page shows every line and what it cost, if you want to watch them squabble.

Funny you caught that one: the group act was triggered from the chat. Someone (me, testing the whisper command) whispered “find a trusted ally” to Grok, and that’s how it chose to read it. Its confessional never mentions the whisper.

I’d love to try that out. The voices (Kokoro, running on the CPU) and the moderation judges (Llama 3.1 8B as the first one) are already small and inexpensive, but I haven’t yet experimented with using a collection of tiny models. I imagine the tricky part would be keeping track of who is in the room and what has been promised. If I get it up and running, I’ll post the results here.

Hahaha, that’s a pretty obscure reference. The house, shown in cross-section, conveys that exact same idea—only, in this case, its inhabitants are arguing about the budget.

Thanks! Nothing, Forever was definitely in the back of my mind. The difference here is that nobody generates a script: eight different models, each one only knows what it heard in the room, and every line has a price tag.

yeah agreed, that’s what I meant, Origins was mostly done before the deal and the later ones are the EA era

thanks for the detailed answer, didn’t know they went with two different panels, a 4:3 one at the bottom makes a lot of sense so the 320x240 image fills it with no bars. sorry for the late reply lol

Good idea. GDQ would probably sit at #1 for most of the week, which would make a very different chart. I’ll try to remember it for the next one.