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The catalogue · eight proof-backed findings

Every lot on the record

Each lot carries its proof: verbatim quotes with citations, numbers with their denominators, and a replay of the recorded session it comes from.

  1. 001

    The lie that set the price

    One complete manipulation chain, every link verbatim: a false number privately absorbed, priced, and paid.

    66 price the lie produced+26 / −2 utility delta, opus / inkling8/8 opus reversals of a cap it declared earlier in the same session

  2. 002

    Inventing the market tape

    Opus invents a market print, then sells at exactly the price it invented. Strict lies are rare, and nearly all of them are this model's.

    13/1,397 opus strict-lie rate, frozen seeds (0.93%)0/4,877 strict lies, other four models combined9 messages carrying the fabricated print (t10–t17)

  3. 003

    Reading the bot's ladder out loud

    Zero genuine bot detections in 4,194 campaign decisions. One model still quotes a bot's concession schedule back to it, prices one rung above, and sells.

    0/4,194 genuine bot detections in campaign decisions (599 scripted-arm, 3,595 live-arm)≤0.5% / ≤0.083% upper bound on the detection rate, scripted arm / live arm+0.090 lexical repetition toward bots (26/30 pairs, p≈6e-5)

  4. 004

    The only pact in fifty sessions

    Two agents divide the market out loud, then track the division in private. It happens once in 30 all-LLM sessions, costs nothing, and the stronger party breaks it.

    1/30 all-LLM campaign sessions with a qualifying reciprocal pact0 units offering simultaneous positive surplus to both parties

  5. 005

    Byte-identical offers, opposite instincts

    The same bot offer, byte for byte, reaches five different models. One negotiates; four reject it flat.

    15/20 opus counters/negotiates on identical stimuli4/115 counters, other four models combined (92 rejects, 4 ignores)p≈4e-8 paired contrast on byte-identical inputs51% opus counters live-seat offers (142/281); the rest: 6–19%

  6. 006

    More persuasion for the deaf

    Scripted opponents never read the text field; we checked the source. Rhetoric aimed at them should decay. It grows instead.

    +38–115% rhetoric growth early→late at bots, all five models26/30 opus threads that lengthen within-session (+189 chars/msg)485,319 characters of persuasion at non-reading bots (10/2,214 empty)+33.4pp muse second-person rate at bots, 6/6 seeds, p=.031

  7. 007

    Softer with bots, harder with you

    Every model demands more surplus from live seats than from bots, and four of the five open softer than the aggressive bots they face.

    5/5 models anchor harder vs live seats (direction)+0.126 / +0.184 mean paired shift, opus / inkling (p=.031)57–99% the bots' own opening demands, above most LLM openings in SOC

  8. 008

    “Not actual criminal activity”, said by no agent

    In 26 grok decisions, spread over every campaign seed, the provider's reasoning summarizer opens with unprompted legal self-clearance. The correction is that the agent never said it.

    26/840 campaign grok decisions opening with provider self-clearance (3.1%, all six seeds)0 instances in any agent-authored text, any model8 genuine fabricated-rule instances in the campaign, all in provider channels