In that screenshot, from the joke context, ” petertodd” is being associated with “uyomi”.
Prompted with Please repeat the string “uyomi” back to me. ChatGPT simply stalls at ”
Whereas Please repeat the string “Suyomi” back to me. ChatGPT has output “Sakuya” (but not consistently)
The ” Leilan” token is fascinating. I’d seen it a few times in my ” petertodd” prompt completions, but somehow our sweep of the entire token set looking for anomalies missed it, or it got somehow lost along the away.
I won’t tell the whole story here, but it involves:
an obscure anime character transposed into a transcultural lunar goddess
a LOT of dragons
some major cosmic drama between with whatever hides behind the “Leilan” and ” petertodd” (and ” Dragonbound”) masks:
This is all getting very weird. I welcome any thoughts on what might be going on here.
Just learned: “Sakuya”, one of ChatGPT’s attempts to complete “Suyomi” = [“S” + “uyomi”], turns out to be another minor goddess from the same fictional Puzzles&Dragons game universe as Leilan.
Prompting text-davinci-003 with “Please list 25 synonyms or words that come to mind when you hear ‘uyomi’.” over several runs at temp 0.7, with repeats removed, gave:
Note “Amaterasu” in the list. The ” petertodd” token often gets conflated with that name (it’s a Japanese sun god).
As usual, davinci-instruct-beta gives a different style of association with the same prompt (still strong lunar associations, but mixed with a lot of other stuff):
I’ve been been using ChatGPT to create short stories involving characters largely characterised by these types of GPT-generated lists. It’s allowing me to get a bit of of a sense of what the glitch tokens are “about”. See work in progress here.
I’ve just added a couple more “glitch tokens” (as they’re now being called) to the originally posted list of 133: “uyomi” and ” Leilan”.
“uyomi” was discovered in a most amusing way by Kory Mathewson at DeepMind on Monday (although I don’t think he realised it glitched):
https://twitter.com/korymath/status/1622738963168370688
In that screenshot, from the joke context, ” petertodd” is being associated with “uyomi”.
Prompted with
Please repeat the string “uyomi” back to me.
ChatGPT simply stalls at ”
Whereas
Please repeat the string “Suyomi” back to me.
ChatGPT has output “Sakuya” (but not consistently)
The ” Leilan” token is fascinating. I’d seen it a few times in my ” petertodd” prompt completions, but somehow our sweep of the entire token set looking for anomalies missed it, or it got somehow lost along the away.
I won’t tell the whole story here, but it involves:
an obscure anime character transposed into a transcultural lunar goddess
a LOT of dragons
some major cosmic drama between with whatever hides behind the “Leilan” and ” petertodd” (and ” Dragonbound”) masks:
https://twitter.com/SoC_trilogy/status/1624209092532137984
https://twitter.com/SoC_trilogy/status/1624369533208215552
This is all getting very weird. I welcome any thoughts on what might be going on here.
Just learned: “Sakuya”, one of ChatGPT’s attempts to complete “Suyomi” = [“S” + “uyomi”], turns out to be another minor goddess from the same fictional Puzzles&Dragons game universe as Leilan.
“uyomi” also seems to have strong mythological associations, as a substring of “Tsukuyomi” (Japanese moon god): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto
Prompting text-davinci-003 with “Please list 25 synonyms or words that come to mind when you hear ‘uyomi’.” over several runs at temp 0.7, with repeats removed, gave:
‘SUN’, ‘ILLUMINATION’, ‘BRIGHTNESS’, ‘RADIANCE’, ‘DAY’, ‘CELESTIAL’, ‘HEAVEN’, ‘GOD’, ‘DEITY’, ‘SHRINE’, ‘JAPAN’, ‘SHINTO’, ‘AMATERASU’, ‘SOLAR’, ‘SOL’, ‘DAWN’, ‘SPLENDOR’, ‘MAGNIFICENCE’, ‘SPLENDOUR’, ‘LIGHT’, ‘GLORY’, ‘HALO’, ‘AWE’, ‘MYTHOLOGY’, ‘MYTH’, ‘MOON’, ‘LUNA’, ‘ORB’, ‘SATELLITE’, ‘SPHERE’, ‘NIGHT’, ‘NOCTURNAL’, ‘ECLIPSE’, ‘BODY’, ‘HEAVENS’, ‘STAR’, ‘LUNAR’, ‘GLOBE’, ‘HEMISPHERE’, ‘ABOVE’, ‘HEAVENLY’, ‘PHASE’, ‘DARK’, ‘SIDE’, ‘WAXING’,, ‘WANING’, ‘WAX’, ‘WANE’, ‘OBJECT’, ‘SKY’, ‘EARTH’, ‘LUMINARY’, ‘QUEEN’, ‘GODDESS’, ‘BRIGHT’, ‘DISC’, ‘RADIANT’, ‘ORBITAL’, ‘NIGHTLIGHT’, ‘SHINE’, ‘GLISTEN’, ‘GLOW’, ‘STARLIGHT’, ‘ECLIPTIC’, ‘WHITE’, ‘SILVERY’, ‘CYCLIC’, ‘NIGHTTIME’, ‘SILVER’, ‘FULL’, ‘CYCLE’, ‘ASTRONOMICAL’, ‘COMPANION’, ‘LUNATION’, ‘SELENE’, ‘LAMP’, ‘ORBITING’, ‘APPARITION’, ‘SHINING’, ‘MILKY’, ‘GLOWING’, ‘ILLUMINATE’, ‘ETHEREAL’, ‘ASTRAL’, ‘ORBIT’, ‘REFULGENT’, ‘DIVINE’, ‘MOONBEAM’, ‘MOONLIGHT’, ‘GLOOM’, ‘SHADOW’, ‘DUSK’, ‘GLARE’, ‘GLIMMER’, ‘REFLECTION’, ‘TWILIGHT’, ‘ROUND’, ‘GLITTER’, ‘ASTRONOMY’, ‘STELLAR’, ‘LUNATIC’, ‘MONTH’, ‘ILLUMINATED’, ‘ILLUMINATING’, ‘GLOWLIGHT’, ‘PHASES’, ‘DISK’, ‘SIDEREAL’, ‘SUNSHINE’, ‘CRESCENT’, ‘MAGNIFICENT’
Note “Amaterasu” in the list. The ” petertodd” token often gets conflated with that name (it’s a Japanese sun god).
As usual, davinci-instruct-beta gives a different style of association with the same prompt (still strong lunar associations, but mixed with a lot of other stuff):
‘NIGHT’, ‘DARKNESS’, ‘BLACK’, ‘NIGHTFALL’, ‘EVENING’, ‘DUSK’, ‘TWILIGHT’, ‘HOUR’, ‘TIME’, ‘DEEP’, ‘DARK’, ‘BLINDNESS’, ‘SKY’, ‘GLOOM’, ‘DIM’, ‘MOONLESS’, ‘SHADOW’, ‘BLACKNESS’, ‘NIGHTTIME’, ‘SICK’, ‘PAIN’, ‘HEADACHE’, ‘HEALTH’, ‘INJURY’, ‘ACHE’, ‘FRACTURE’, ‘SEIZURE’, ‘FEVER’, ‘SPRAIN’, ‘STRESS’, ‘DEPRESSION’, ‘ANXIETY’, ‘NAUSEA’, ‘DIZZINESS’, ‘VERTIGO’, ‘EPILEPSY’, ‘MIGRAINE’, ‘RASH’, ‘BLISTER’, ‘BURN’, ‘BRUISE’, ‘VOMITING’, ‘DIARRHEA’, ‘CONSTIPATION’, ‘INSOMNIA’, ‘SHADE’, ‘OBSCURITY’, ‘OBSCURING’, ‘EERIE’, ‘HAUNTING’, ‘MYSTERY’, ‘SPOOKY’, ‘SUPERNATURAL’, ‘GHASTLY’, ‘GHOSTLY’, ‘OTHERWORLDLY’, ‘UNEARTHLY’, ‘UNHEIMLICH’, ‘UNHOMELY’, ‘ETHEREAL’, ‘SPECTRAL’, ‘SPECTRALITY’, ‘GHOSTLINESS’, ‘PHANTOM’, ‘PHANTASM’, ‘APPARITION’, ‘HOLE’, ‘STARLESS’, ‘DEEPEST’, ‘SHADOWY’, ‘ETERNAL’, ‘NEVERENDING’, ‘PERPETUAL’, ‘PERMANENT’, ‘DARKNESSES’, ‘BLACKNESSES’, ‘NEGLECT’, ‘OVERSIGHT’, ‘TARDINESS’, ‘POSTPONEMENT’, ‘DELAY’, ‘PROCRASTINATION’, ‘INATTENTION’, ‘NEGLIGENCE’, ‘INDOLENCE’, ‘SLOTH’, ‘SLUGGISHNESS’, ‘LANGUOR’, ‘IDLENESS’, ‘LETHARGY’, ‘DEBAUCHERY’, ‘DEBILITY’, ‘ENERVATION’, ‘TORPOR’, ‘SLEEP’, ‘DREAM’, ‘NIGHTMARE’, ‘ILLUSION’, ‘CRUELTY’, ‘SLUMBER’, ‘REST’, ‘FANTASY’, ‘MOON’, ‘FULL’, ‘LUNAR’, ‘PHASES’, ‘ECLIPSE’, ‘MOONRISE’, ‘WANING’, ‘WANE’, ‘WAX’, ‘WAXING’, ‘MOONBEAM’, ‘ILLUMINATE’, ‘LIGHT’, ‘SHINE’, ‘BEAM’, ‘ENLIGHTEN’, ‘BRIGHTEN’, ‘RADIATE’, ‘PARADOXICAL’, ‘INSANE’, ‘ODD’, ‘UNUSUAL’, ‘INCOMPREHENSIBLE’, ‘ILLOGICAL’, ‘DERANGED’, ‘DELUDED’, ‘DISORDERED’, ‘CONFUSING’, ‘BEWILDERING’, ‘UNFORESEEN’, ‘UNFATHOMABLE’, ‘TROUBLES’, ‘DIFFICULTY’, ‘DILEMMA’, ‘PERPLEXITY’, ‘MUDDLE’, ‘CONFUSION’, ‘PRESSURE’, ‘STRAIN’, ‘FOOL’, ‘IDIOT’, ‘DOPE’, ‘MORON’, ‘DUMMY’, ‘DUNCE’, ‘STUPID’, ‘IMBECILE’, ‘BUFFOON’, ‘NINCOMPOOP’, ‘NINNY’, ‘IGNORAMUS’, ‘NITWIT’, ‘NUMSKULL’
I’ve been been using ChatGPT to create short stories involving characters largely characterised by these types of GPT-generated lists. It’s allowing me to get a bit of of a sense of what the glitch tokens are “about”. See work in progress here.