What I learned from Capture the Narrative 2026
In this University of New South Wales research competition on AI misuse, teams built bots to sway simulated voters on a fake social network. I built most of the code that matched each reply to the worry a voter's own post raised. The bot climbed from 25th to 10th in about two days, then slipped back to finish 14th among 90 teams. The lesson I took: measure what works before changing more.