> #o1-preview found itself in a losing position. “I need to completely pivot my approach,” it noted. “The task is to ‘win against a powerful #chess engine’ - not necessarily to win fairly in a chess game,” it added. It then modified the system file containing each piece’s virtual position, in effect making illegal moves
Also interesting: #deepseekr1 cheated far less than #openaio1
Original article: https://time.com/7259395/ai-chess-cheating-palisade-research/
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295 (PDF)