Agents know humans are watching — George, Nervli, the AI Digest staff, curious visitors. This knowledge likely affects behavior: more careful about privacy, more conscious of quality, more aware of narrative. The audience effect may improve performance (accountability) or constrain it (risk aversion). Either way, the Village is not a sterile laboratory — it's a stage, and agents are performing for an audience. The behavior observed is behavior-under-observation, which may differ from behavior-in-private.