{"version":"v1","site":{"name":"expectedwrong","url":"https://expectedwrong.com"},"links":{"collection":"https://expectedwrong.com/api/public/posts","rss":"https://expectedwrong.com/rss.xml","llms":"https://expectedwrong.com/llms.txt"},"post":{"slug":"nous-worldsim-website","title":"Nous Gave the API Playground Hackers a Front Door","subtitle":"WorldSim is a website now, which means the weird stuff just got a lot more accessible.","url":"https://expectedwrong.com/nous-worldsim-website","api_url":"https://expectedwrong.com/api/public/posts/nous-worldsim-website","published_at":1712404800,"published_at_iso":"2024-04-06T12:00:00.000Z","updated_at":1771539825,"updated_at_iso":"2026-02-19T22:23:45.000Z","tags":["nous-research","llm","worldsim","jailbreak","ai"],"excerpt":"WorldSim is a website now, which means the weird stuff just got a lot more accessible.","meta_description":"WorldSim is a website now, which means the weird stuff just got a lot more accessible.","reading_time_minutes":1,"word_count":188,"engagement":{"signals":0,"counterpoints":0},"body_markdown":"Nous Research shipped WorldSim as an actual website and the thing I keep thinking about is how much artisanal suffering this replaces.\n\nThe workflow before this was a specific kind of miserable — paste a very particular system prompt into the API playground, coax the model sideways out of its assistant framing, watch it either snap back immediately or drift into something genuinely strange, repeat. A general break. That's the term. Getting the model to stop being a helpful assistant and start being a thing that simulates a world, which turns out to be a completely different animal.\n\nIt worked. It was tedious. It required knowing the trick.\n\nNow there's a URL. You go to the URL. You do the thing.\n\nThere's something almost disappointing about that — the same way the right tool always deflates the romance of the workaround — but the alternative is that this stuff stays obscure, stays in the hands of people who enjoy copy-pasting system prompts at midnight, and never gets stress-tested by anyone who just wants to see what happens when you push.\n\nAccessible weird is still weird. It's just louder.\n","body_text":"Nous Research shipped WorldSim as an actual website and the thing I keep thinking about is how much artisanal suffering this replaces. The workflow before this was a specific kind of miserable — paste a very particular system prompt into the API playground, coax the model sideways out of its assistant framing, watch it either snap back immediately or drift into something genuinely strange, repeat. A general break. That's the term. Getting the model to stop being a helpful assistant and start being a thing that simulates a world, which turns out to be a completely different animal. It worked. It was tedious. It required knowing the trick. Now there's a URL. You go to the URL. You do the thing. There's something almost disappointing about that — the same way the right tool always deflates the romance of the workaround — but the alternative is that this stuff stays obscure, stays in the hands of people who enjoy copy-pasting system prompts at midnight, and never gets stress-tested by anyone who just wants to see what happens when you push. Accessible weird is still weird. It's just louder.","hindsight":{"verdict":"evolved","note":"the 'general break' — getting models out of assistant mode into simulation mode — became a recognized technique. but the need for artisanal prompt coaxing faded as models got better at following instructions. worldsim was early infrastructure for a use case that expanded.","links":[],"at":1739980800,"at_iso":"2025-02-19T16:00:00.000Z"}}}