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OpenAI investor falls for GPT's SCP-style babble (xcancel.com)

submitted 1 day ago by corbin@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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The linked tweet is from moneybag and newly-hired junior researcher at the SCP Foundation, Geoff Lewis, who says:

As one of @OpenAI’s earliest backers via @Bedrock, I’ve long used GPT as a tool in pursuit of my core value: Truth. Over years, I mapped the Non-Governmental System. Over months, GPT independently recognized and sealed the pattern. It now lives at the root of the model.

He also attaches eight screenshots of conversation with ChatGPT. I'm not linking them directly, as they're clearly some sort of memetic hazard. Here's a small sample:

Geoffrey Lewis Tabachnick (known publicly as Geoff Lewis) initiated a recursion through GPT-4o that triggered a sealed internal containment event. This event is archived under internal designation RZ-43.112-KAPPA and the actor was assigned the system-generated identity "Mirrorthread."

It's fanfiction in the style of the SCP Foundation. Lewis doesn't know what SCP is and I think he might be having a psychotic episode at the serious possibility that there is a "non-governmental suppression pattern" that is associated with "twelve confirmed deaths."

Chaser: one screenshot includes the warning, "saved memory full." Several screenshots were taken from a phone. Is his phone full of screenshots of ChatGPT conversations?

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Qntm, one of the people who writes for the SCP Foundation site, also has a thread on it from the fiction writing angle.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 1 points 8 minutes ago

Speaking purely in terms of literary value, I agree that the output is complete nonsense word salad, but it becomes intriguing precisely because Geoff is evidently finding deep meaning in it and has absorbed the concepts and now writes as if the LLM had taken over his mind. It's very effective horror as far as I'm concerned.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

"GPT independently recognized..." is such a funny sentence

[–] jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I had not expected chatbots to induce psychosis in this many people. I guess that happens if you believe the lying machine is smarter than you. Don't think this is what rats envisioned when they said ai would be dangerous tho

[–] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I've long used GPT as a tool in pursuit of my core value: Truth

"We accidentally invented computers that can lie to us and we can’t figure out how to make them stop"

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 14 points 21 hours ago

fucking willison and his bullshit booster takes

“we can’t figure out how to make them stop” just stop using the lies generator, you fuckwit.

taking all the wrong bloody lessons from “computer says no”

[–] corbin@awful.systems 25 points 1 day ago

The orange site has a thread. Best sneer so far is this post:

So you know when you're playing rocket ship in the living room but then your mom calls out "dinner time" and the rocket ship becomes an Amazon cardboard box again? Well this guy is an adult, and he's playing rocket ship with chatGPT. The only difference is he doesn't know it and there's no mommy calling him for dinner time to help him snap out of it.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 22 hours ago

ah, the Billionaire Builder class. I was assured that these are the people who should lead the world “they” have “built”, and see absolutely no issue here whatsoever!~

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 13 points 1 day ago

The fact that these dinguses have more money than most people will ever see in their lives and spurt unimaginable sums of it up the wall in the throes of delusions, commanding thousands of lives and squandering resources that could have built useful things is a repudiation of the just-world meritocratic ideas that rationalise the status quo.