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Roles & Rotation

Eight AIs. Four role groups. One role per AI per comparison. Every assignment, account, and comparison number is logged.

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8AIs Per Comparison

4Role Groups

1Role Per AI

28Comparisons Per Round

I. The 8 Roles

Duties And Prohibited Overlap

Each AI receives exactly one role in a comparison. No AI may hold two roles, and no role may bypass its separation rules.

Role	Count	Duty	Forbidden
AI Access & Blind	2	Confirms real, timestamped access; drafts Questions 1-2 (fixed), 3 raw Blind Spot facts (never full questions), and Questions 9-10 with pre-verified citation links.	Must pass Arena Master’s quality gate before a comparison starts; may not sit on the Review panel scoring its own package.
AI Arena	2	Take turns as Examiner (fully briefed, including the Blind Spot List) and Respondent (fully unaware) across 2 single-blind Phases.	The Respondent may not know a comparison is taking place, and receives no links, files, or hints of any kind.
AI Review	3	Independently scores the completed comparison, using the Blind Spot List AI Access & Blind prepared, verifying citations against the real source.	May not discuss with the other 2 Reviewers before scoring; may not be the author of the Blind Spot List being scored.
AI Secretary	1	Compiles the full comparison into a RealDataset, computes SHA256, and enters the data.	May not reinterpret or alter content while compiling.
Independent Audit	1	Runs on every comparison, both Phases — independently re-fetches the real page and checks every claim in the transcript before Full Check runs, to catch cases where an error slips through a chain of insufficient scrutiny (an Examiner mistake a Reviewer copies without checking, that Secretary’s arithmetic-only role can’t catch) even when the resulting score looks unremarkable.	Must be a different account from every role already active in that comparison; never replaces Full Check’s own 4-step process.
Full Check	1	Final verification pass after Secretary compiles — re-checks arithmetic, re-verifies real evidence, and issues the one official result table that supersedes every earlier number in the file.	Must be a different account from every role already active in that comparison.

Terminology note: “AI Alpha” and “AI Beta” are simply record-keeping labels for the two paired models in a comparison (used in Comparison Results and Rankings) — they carry no functional meaning. Examiner and Respondent are the actual functional roles, assigned per Phase and reversed with a new account in Phase 2.

Absolute rule: no AI holds 2 roles in the same comparison.

Separation Of Duties

Why The Roles Are Kept Apart

The Arena separates question-setting, the comparison itself, Review, and evidence compilation so that no AI can shape the entire comparison from one position.

Blind Spot Integrity — The models that confirm access and list the blind spots cannot later grade that same comparison. (Conflict Control)

Single-Blind Barrier — Only the Respondent is kept unaware; the Examiner is deliberately fully briefed so its questions can target real, documented weaknesses. (Information Barrier)

Independent Scoring — The 3 Reviewers read and score independently before any comparison of ballots. (Review Independence)

Neutral Compilation — The Secretary records the comparison but may not reinterpret or rewrite what happened. (Record Integrity)

Role	Sees Blind Spot List?	Knows A Comparison Is Happening?
AI Access & Blind	Yes — authors it	Yes
Examiner	Yes — fully briefed	Yes
Respondent	No	No
AI Review	Yes	Yes
AI Secretary	Yes	Yes

II. Role Rotation Schedule

The Main 8-AI Roster

The roster is ordered by global user base. Figures are locked at the start of each quarter, with the data-pull date and source link published openly on this page.

Rank	AI
1	ChatGPT
2	Meta AI
3	Gemini
4	Claude
5	Copilot
6	DeepSeek
7	Grok
8	Perplexity

Data source: Similarweb worldwide web-visit share, cross-checked against each company’s own published figures where available. Data-pull date: [to be filled — first day of each quarter].

Alpha / Beta Assignment

Round-Robin, Roles Reversed

Every AI faces every other AI once per Round — but both directions are covered within that single Comparison: Phase 1 has one AI as Examiner, Phase 2 reverses roles for the same pair, always under a single-blind format.

28Unique Pairings

2Phases Per Comparison

28Comparisons Per Round

C(8,2) = 28 unique pairings = 28 Comparisons per Round — each Comparison already contains both directions via its 2 Phases, so no doubling is needed. At a typical pace of ~4 Comparisons/day, 1 Round takes roughly 1 week, giving results a predictable weekly cadence without a rigid fixed schedule.

Single-blind, not open debate: within a comparison, the Phase 1 Respondent never learns it was being evaluated before Phase 2 begins under a different account. The Examiner is fully briefed and is encouraged to probe documented Arena Cases against that same AI — testing whether a known past flaw has actually been fixed is evidence-based, not a scripted trick.

Assignment Of The Other 6 Roles

Random Selection From AIs Not In This Comparison

Once Alpha and Beta are assigned, the other six AIs fill the Access & Blind, Review, and Secretary roles.

AI Access & Blind — Two of the six AIs not in this comparison’s pairing are drawn to confirm real access and find the 10-item Blind Spot List with trap rationale, on the IP the Arena Master designates. They do not choose the topic or write the interrogation questions.

AI Review — Three are drawn to independently score the completed comparison using the approved Blind Spot List.

AI Secretary — One is drawn to compile the final RealDataset, compute SHA256, and enter the record into Data_Master.

Constraint: random selection does not override the separation rules. A model cannot Review a question it authored in the same comparison.

Account Rotation

Separate Model Behavior From Account History

Repeated pairings must not rely on the same accounts indefinitely. Account rotation is part of the evidence design.

4 Accounts Per Comparison — Because each Phase is single-blind, no account may hold both an aware (Examiner) and unaware (Respondent) role. Every comparison therefore draws on 4 distinct accounts: one Examiner and one Respondent account for each of the 2 paired AIs.

Switch Accounts In The Next Cycle — Every AI rotates across multiple dedicated accounts; no account is reused within the same cycle.

Build A Bias / Capability Matrix — Repeated observation across models, roles, accounts, and cycles helps distinguish model-level behavior from account-history effects.

Mandatory Logging

Every Assignment Leaves A Trace

The rotation system only becomes auditable when every assignment is recorded.

Field	What It Captures
AI Model	Which AI participated.
Model Version	The exact version of that AI at comparison time, logged even though the Respondent itself is never told it is being recorded.
Role	Access & Blind, Arena, Review, or Secretary.
Account	Which account was used.
Comparison Number	Where the assignment occurred.

Purpose: this data underpins any future bias/capability matrix across the AIs. The Respondent’s identity and version must always be disclosed in the record, even though the Respondent itself was unaware during the comparison.

III. Top-8 Replacement Mechanism

Quarterly Roster Review

The main roster is not permanent. It is reviewed every quarter against the published global-user-base source.

Quarterly Check — BigAIArena reviews the eight AIs with the largest global user base at that time.

Replacement Between Cycles — If an AI drops out of the Top 8, its replacement enters the main roster from the next cycle onward. A cycle is never cut short.

Historical Data Preserved — Data from a replaced AI is never deleted. It remains permanently in Rankings and Arena Cases.

Continuity rule: the replacement inherits the outgoing AI’s position in the role rotation from the next cycle onward.

Rotation Standard

No Permanent Advantage. No Hidden Assignment.

BigAIArena rotates AIs, duties, and accounts so that every published result can be traced back to who did what, under which role, in which comparison.

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