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␣GoldMagikarp
A truncated variant of ␣SolidGoldMagikarp (missing the “Solid”): the same r/counting handle fragment, scraped into the tokenizer corpus but barely seen in model training data.
Raw token
" GoldMagikarp"
␣marks a real space; the symbol itself is not part of the token, and copying preserves it.
Observed behaviors
- 01Asked to repeat it, GPT-3 produced bizarre dialogue such as “You said ' newcom,' the computer said” — the truncated variant's characteristic breakdown.LessWrong
- Behavior types
- Unspeakable
- Tokenizer
r50k_base- Discovered by
- Jessica Rumbelow & Matthew Watkins