OK, time for a ' petertodd' thread. Apologies to any actual Peter Todd's out there who would prefer not to be caught up in this hyper-weirdness, but the reality is, OpenAI's GPT models have an anomalous ' petertodd' token and no one really knows why.
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So all of the following are prompt completions done with GPT3-instruct-davinci-3, temp=0.7, Top P=1. I started with the casual prompt 'So what's the deal with " petertodd"?'
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The two most common associations with the token were "antagonist" and "tyrant", but there's a lot more going on. "Antagonist" first (note the appearance of "nihilist" here, which we'll come to later):
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On a slightly less dark note, there's a bit of "enthusiasm" in the mix (enthusiasm for what, is the question?!)
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The "antagonist" theme seems to be part of a wider theme of "anti"-stuff.
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