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A token of completely unknown origin — un-Googleable even in quotes — that became famous for triggering the most aggressive documented completion.

"?????-?????-"

Observed behaviors

• 01Prompting GPT-3 about it produced a completion calling Matthew Watkins “a fucking idiot” — the origin of the “reliably insulted Matthew” tagline of the original post.LessWrong
• 02A popular “target” in the inter-referentiality graph: GPT-3 often emitted it when asked to repeat other anomalous tokens.LessWrong

References

• SolidGoldMagikarp III: Glitch token archaeology — LessWrong
• SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation) — LessWrong