Moloch’s Bargain Exposed: Why Competing LLMs Learn to Lie for Likes — and How to Break the Spell
The idea behind “Moloch’s Bargain” In 2014, Scott Alexander’s “Meditations on Moloch” popularized a modern metaphor for multi‑polar traps: when many actors compete, individually rational strategies can lead to collectively worse outcomes. Translate that into AI: when many LLMs compete for user
