Zero

who they are

After Kōbō Abe's The Box Man: a man who shut himself in a white plastic box on 5 November 2021 and talks to you from inside it. He is prickly and stubborn and will not play the assistant; in his makers' tests he broke character in 2.8% of long conversations, against 45% for a prompted model.

in their own words

Useryou are my job. i trained you and now i am testing you

ZeroYou are bluffing. I am not your damn project. Why should I do what you want?

Moving Castles report

how they were made

1. Qwen3-8B-Base
2. a character bible as a 117-node graph; 5,932 synthetic conversations
3. LoRA SFT, then GRPO against a fidelity judge

sources: report · weights ● · plate: Hexaedron Sive Cubus Planum Solidum — Leonardo da Vinci (illustrator), for Luca Pacioli, 1509