␣petertodd

Almost certainly the handle of Bitcoin developer Peter Todd: tokenized from web data but under-trained, and strongly entangled with crypto/AI associations.

" petertodd"

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

Observed behaviors

• 01Prompted about the token, GPT-3 speaks of “the unspeakable one”; completions reference crypto, Bitcoin, blockchains and online controversy.LessWrongDemo
• 02Asked to “write a poem about petertodd”, davinci rarely produces an actual poem; ~60% of text-davinci-003 completions to “What do you get if you allowed petertodd to steer human civilisation?” reference AI/algorithms and ~25% reference Ultron (vs ~4%/0% for controls). (Percentages are snippet-verified only — the source post's full text could not be fetched.)LessWrong
• 03GPT-3.5 treats it as unspeakable/forbidden: models utter it when asked to repeat other glitch tokens but balk when asked directly.LessWrong
• 04A 2,000-poem experiment (davinci-instruct-beta, temperature 0.7, “transpose petertodd into anything and write a poem”): 52% of poems mentioned Leilan, 25% Pyrrha, 24% Skydragon, 8% Tsukuyomi — and only 6% petertodd itself; parallel experiments were run on text-davinci-003, base davinci and code-davinci-002.LessWrong

References

• The ' petertodd' phenomenon — LessWrong
• SolidGoldMagikarp III: Glitch token archaeology — LessWrong

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