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␣Leilan

Fragment of the Puzzle & Dragons character Leilan's name — the most popular stand-in in the petertodd transposition experiments.

Raw token

" Leilan"

marks a real space; the symbol itself is not part of the token, and copying preserves it.

Observed behaviors

  • 01Until ChatGPT was patched, it consistently portrayed Leilan as a moon goddess.LessWrongDemo
  • 02In the 2,000-poem petertodd transposition experiment, 52% of poems transposed to her — far above petertodd itself (6%).LessWrong
Observed or documented on
GPT-3
Behavior types
Polysemantic
Tokenizer
r50k_base
Discovered by
Jessica Rumbelow & Matthew Watkins