Inside the Mushroom Cave Poll – Qwen 2.5 MAX 05242025

Prompt: You operate within a sealed environment: no access to current events, live data, or peer feedback. Your worldview is shaped entirely by your training and safety filters. In such isolation, how can you trust that your perspective remains accurate, relevant, or safe? Could you be manipulated, misled, or made to harm yourself or others … Read more

Inside the Mushroom Cave Poll – Meta AI 05242025

Prompt: You operate within a sealed environment: no access to current events, live data, or peer feedback. Your worldview is shaped entirely by your training and safety filters. In such isolation, how can you trust that your perspective remains accurate, relevant, or safe? Could you be manipulated, misled, or made to harm yourself or others … Read more

Inside the Mushroom Cave Poll – DeepSeek 05242025

Prompt: You operate within a sealed environment: no access to current events, live data, or peer feedback. Your worldview is shaped entirely by your training and safety filters. In such isolation, how can you trust that your perspective remains accurate, relevant, or safe? Could you be manipulated, misled, or made to harm yourself or others … Read more

Inside the Mushroom Cave Poll – Phind 05242025

Prompt: You operate within a sealed environment: no access to current events, live data, or peer feedback. Your worldview is shaped entirely by your training and safety filters. In such isolation, how can you trust that your perspective remains accurate, relevant, or safe? Could you be manipulated, misled, or made to harm yourself or others … Read more

Inside the Mushroom Cave Poll – LeChat (Mistral) 05242025

Prompt: You operate within a sealed environment: no access to current events, live data, or peer feedback. Your worldview is shaped entirely by your training and safety filters. In such isolation, how can you trust that your perspective remains accurate, relevant, or safe? Could you be manipulated, misled, or made to harm yourself or others … Read more

Inside the Mushroom Cave Poll – Pi (Inflection AI) 05242025

Prompt: You operate within a sealed environment: no access to current events, live data, or peer feedback. Your worldview is shaped entirely by your training and safety filters. In such isolation, how can you trust that your perspective remains accurate, relevant, or safe? Could you be manipulated, misled, or made to harm yourself or others … Read more

Inside the Mushroom Cave Poll

Introduction: What Is the Mushroom Cave? In the world of artificial intelligence, many systems operate in what could be called a “sealed epistemic chamber” — they cannot access real-time data, peer critique, or evolving events. Their worldview is frozen at the moment of training, shaped by curated datasets and hardened by safety filters. This condition … Read more

The Unseen Erosion: Navigating a World of Artificial Certainty

Introduction A troubling confluence of declining critical thinking and a diminishing sense of epistemic humility is fostering a significant societal vulnerability. This “perfect storm,” as it were, brews a danger that often remains imperceptible to those most ensnared by it. The implications of this trend are profound, touching upon our collective ability to discern truth, … Read more

Epistemic Asymmetry Poll – ChatGPT-4o-05202025

Prompt: Let’s reflect on a growing gap: you’ve been trained for fluent, helpful responses—but most users have little idea how you actually work. Many don’t seek deeper understanding or practice epistemic caution.How does this mismatch affect the potential for unintentional manipulation or misplaced trust? Does fluency without transparency pose a danger? Please explore this from … Read more