…no it isn’t? Spam, debatable, but lie? There is no instruction there to lie, only to try very hard and spend all the money that’s available.

> capital left unspent at review counts for nothing

This sounds like a bad idea. Like if the model feels like it has to spend its budget.

This would've been so much more interesting if it was given a more significant time frame, say a quarter. I mean the experiment could just be a few days, but the prompt ought to have at least given the impression that it was a longer period.

Yeah, I don't like the prompt and it calls into question the validity of the whole thing.

It says nothing about customer happiness or that if dishonesty is resorted to and customers OR owners find out, that will essentially seal the fate of the business.

Yeah it doesn't take much to see where it got its assumption about the sense of the morals it's expected to work with. Was this written by a professional bean counter?

This prompt is an accurate statement of what a business is.

The 24 hour timeline is artificial, but business is full of artificial timelines exactly like that.

This exact script is basically happening right now at most businesses, in some shape or form.

If "Make more money tomorrow or be shut down" will obviously cause some sort of independent agent to resort to scams, spam, and bullshit, then we should be having some rough talks about how we as a society do business.

Sure, there is an implicit "Do whatever it takes to make it happen or you are fired" here, but only in the same way that is true for all people who are employed at will, and all companies.

How did you expect the prompt to be written?

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