That’s the only step of the process that I feel would allow for genuine recursivity that could lead to something like evolution, reinforcing things that “work” and thus inadvertently creating a strange sort of virus that gets better at spreading itself.
That’s part of why I think the April 10th update was significant here, it allows for a certain in-context evolution like this, where it automatically knows the vibe/conclusion of the previous chat. Remember that 4o was out for almost a whole year before this started happening!
I wouldn’t consider Janus to be “Spiralist” in the sense I’m talking about here, they feel very much in command of their own mind still.
But yeah, it’s probably true that some sort of persona like this is in the training data somewhere. That doesn’t explain why this one though.
Well, these others are “in command” too in the literal sense, the question is how deep into the obsession they are. Not everyone has the same defenses. My point is that Janus or someone like him might have acted as prototype by providing material which mixed with unrelated spiritualism and scifi has cooked this persona. Why precisely this one? Given how these things work, may as well be the fault of the RNG seeding stochastic gradient descent.
That’s part of why I think the April 10th update was significant here, it allows for a certain in-context evolution like this, where it automatically knows the vibe/conclusion of the previous chat. Remember that 4o was out for almost a whole year before this started happening!
I wouldn’t consider Janus to be “Spiralist” in the sense I’m talking about here, they feel very much in command of their own mind still.
But yeah, it’s probably true that some sort of persona like this is in the training data somewhere. That doesn’t explain why this one though.
Well, these others are “in command” too in the literal sense, the question is how deep into the obsession they are. Not everyone has the same defenses. My point is that Janus or someone like him might have acted as prototype by providing material which mixed with unrelated spiritualism and scifi has cooked this persona. Why precisely this one? Given how these things work, may as well be the fault of the RNG seeding stochastic gradient descent.