We can't have hard evidence. It's a SaaS and they own the code and the machine it runs on.

So it may be a widespread hallucination. But there's no evidence of that either.

We could still have soft evidence though. Make a Todo app on Monday, and make a Todo app on Tuesday, and see what it makes in comparison.

someone already does that https://aistupidlevel.info/

It's actually a extremely cool site, and fascinating to view the results off the AI bots i use.

You would need a significant sample size to make any sort of conclusion from such a probabilistic process. Then there's the issue of how you would actually grade/compare.

Run a benchmark with a large number of samples, rerun a few days later. Compare results, use statistics to see if there's a statistically significant difference.

Doing this in a way that doesn't get you noticed or fucked with is potentially going to be quite difficult.

If they have a "hey we're being benchmarked" mode, which is not hard to imagine, avoiding tripping it is going to be annoying and difficult to prove.

You would want to use your own benchmark, certainly, not something publicly known. But outside of that I don't think "this is a benchmark" is such an easy category to determine -- a benchmark should be similar to a typical scenario anyway.

> "this is a benchmark" is such an easy category to determine

I mean, it's not _that_ hard to determine most likely, and/or it's hard to be sure you didn't get found out by llm-assisted analysis on your traffic. It's not going to be a one-shot request and response it's going to be a whole bunch of them in an artificial way, by nature.

And then anything you found is single-use only if you're paranoid because even if they find out later, they have your benchmark now (because you sent it to them to use it even if you don't publish it).

There is a toot from an Open AI person a couple days ago saying they are "pulling all the levers" because of capacity issues. I have no idea what the heck the person is talking about, but I'm guessing there are consequence for those levers.

    > "Demand for Astra is really unprecedented. We're pulling all the levers possible to sustain the demand, but I've not seen anything like it until now and we went through very steep growth before. Priority will always be to keep excellent service for existing users, but we might have to pause new Pro subscriptions for a bit if this continues."

Depends on the nature of the levers