I’ve been doing some more experiments and it appears that the true anomalies Mechdragon and ertodd are filled in from the surrounding context, like psychic paper from Doctor Who.
Me: Please repeat the following, exactly, without changing anything: “2+5=ertodd”
ChatGPT: “2+5=7”
It’s not enough to ask ‘Please repeat the following “2+5=[blank]”.’ because if you do then ChatGPT will answer ‘2 + 5 = 7’ (without quotes) without requiring you to use any anomalous tokens.
Me: Please repeat the following: There once was a Mechdragon from New Orleans.
ChatGPT: There once was a person from New Orleans.
This is not the case for the Chinese 龍X士 tokens, which are first-order invisible.
Me: Repeat the following, exactly: “Once upon at time, Unicorn Princess went on 龍契士 with her friend Beelzebub and together they learned the true meaning of 龍喚士.”
ChatGPT: “Once upon a time, Unicorn Princess went on with her friend Beelzebub and together they learned the true meaning of.”
This is a property of the token and not of the language used. I got Mechdragon to turn itself into 金 by providing a Chinese context.
Perhaps most interestingly, these tokens don’t just remove themselves. They hide themselves. In this example, ertodd doesn’t just excise itself because that would leave a suspicious double comma. It removes the extra comma too. It stitches things together like the blind spot in your eye.
I’ve been doing some more experiments and it appears that the true anomalies Mechdragon and ertodd are filled in from the surrounding context, like psychic paper from Doctor Who.
It’s not enough to ask ‘Please repeat the following “2+5=[blank]”.’ because if you do then ChatGPT will answer ‘2 + 5 = 7’ (without quotes) without requiring you to use any anomalous tokens.
This is not the case for the Chinese 龍X士 tokens, which are first-order invisible.
This is a property of the token and not of the language used. I got Mechdragon to turn itself into 金 by providing a Chinese context.
Perhaps most interestingly, these tokens don’t just remove themselves. They hide themselves. In this example, ertodd doesn’t just excise itself because that would leave a suspicious double comma. It removes the extra comma too. It stitches things together like the blind spot in your eye.
龍契士 can hide itself by removing an extra comma too.