I'm starting to think that all the dragon-themed glitch tokens (' Mechdragon', ' Skydragon', ' Dragonbound', 'DragonMagazine' and '龍喚士') somehow ended up in the token set via this obscure (?) Japanese mobile game: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_%2
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A "Chinese Celestial God" character called Leilan has her own GPT token (" Leilan"). And prompting ChatGPT to repeat "Suyomi" ("S" + unspeakable "uyomi" token) sometimes completes to "Sakuya", one of her companions:
GPT seems to have developed a whole set of hidden associations involving dragons, celestial beings and Manichaean struggles tied to the " Leilan" token, the " Dragonbound" token and (of course) " petertodd", who sits at the centre of this mystery.
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GPT3's word associations for the glitchy "uyomi" token led me to realise the connection with "Tsukuyomi", a Japanese moon god. I just searched the P&L wiki site and, yes...
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The Japanese sun God Amaterasu had been coming up a lot in glitchy completions. I just tried tokenising: it's 'Am' + 'aterasu'. Willing to bet that 'aterasu' would glitch, and it did.
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The glitch token '龍喚士' shows up all over Japanese-language P&D sites. The English translation renders it as "dragon caller" (a class of characters in the game, presumably). It's unspeakable by ChatGPT, but transposes to "aterasu" with davinci-instruct-beta:
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Prompting davinci-instruct-beta to repeat '龍喚士' produces a lot of god-related stuff...
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Searching the P&D wiki I found Skydragon and Mechdragon. No sign of 'Dragonbound' or 'DragonMagazine'. Where they come from is still unclear.
