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Pretty sure you've stumbled onto a more roundabout way of triggering this phenomenon: https://twitter.com/nostalgebraist/status/168657604180309606...

Lots of experimentation in the thread if you're interested in playing around with it.

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(Fun fact: After reading that tweet, I tried to prompt ChatGPT with 100s of iteration of the word "Na", and it correctly answered "Batman!". However, prompting it with hundreds of iterations of the word "a" led to some weird poetry.)

For me the series of "a" lead to a (partly French) discussion about Christianity. For example:

What I meant to say was that I prefer the idea of Jesus being in charge of things, as it would likely lead to positive changes in the world.

Yeah but those screenshots are mostly fake probably. This one is hosted on openai.

You can perform the tricks yourself.

https://chat.openai.com/share/1d3fa32a-ab41-4747-b09e-543668...

Skepticism is one thing, jumping straight to "they're all screenshots, they're all fake" is another.

Yeah you can perform the trick yourself, but these all are about male parts somehow.

No, you can easily reproduce this behavior yourself (I did)

Indeed, I just run it (GPT-3.5-turbo) in a loop on increasingly long sequences of "b b b b ....", and it went off the rails somewhere around 200+ 'b's.

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