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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 23/05/2026

back at the end of 2020, before AI took over the world, i laboriously finetuned a GPT-2 model. it was the first public LLM, essentially useless but able to emit curiously coherent text compared to previous methods. i used tweets by several people whose posting i admired, plus a couple other things

tweets:
You wake up alone in the woods. The tree is dead. The moon is missing. There are no animals nearby. Nothing has changed. The forest is strange.

You turn on the tv to discover the newsreader is reading from a piece of paper. The words are to stop the spread of disease, we will kill everyone here'. The rest of the world is unaware of the virus

You're at the library. The librarian is crying. "we can't give your book back. the library is a place of peace. you'd destroy it"

The President is sitting by himself at his desk. The door swings open and a guy wearing a black cape walks in, clutching a big silver cube which he opens with a sigh. "My dad told me to come on down tonight so," he says as he shuts the door behind him, 'don't mess with my cube'

tweets:

It's true: many humans would fall for a fox and get eaten before morning arrives.

It's true: humans have the most beautiful minds, but they lack the cunning & self-control not to go berserk as the bloodlust coursing through them flares up like neon lightning against the cityscape

tweets:

"Darling! I can see you in the mirror. I know you're there. There's no way you're not there. I can hear you laughing in your room. You're being savage. I can see it in your eyes. I know you're not human"

i keep seeing the word 'feral' and i can't stop thinking of a certain someone

napping in a meadow, deep in the Montana Wilderness, under the Star of the West.

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 23/05/2026

i had to sort through *thousands* of tweet-shaped pieces of output by hand to find interesting ones. this thing basically bore no resemblance to how modern LLMs are used. i checked every time, searching carefully. it never overfit: no part of these came directly from the training data i'd fed it.

tweet:

the answer to the riddle of life is heat death the only way to live forever is to die in flames the only way to die is in the fire the only way to end the fire is to be consumed by flames the only way to live forever is to die in fire

tweets:

closing the computer and putting the book in the sink, then closing the sink and putting the book in the computer

You want to eat the moon. You want to fuck the moon. You want to be eaten by the moon.

the moon is turning red. i will not be able to sleep tonight, i have to feed the worms

i cannot stress enough how important it is to treat humans as an entity, and not just a collection of data points

tweets:

*sings* oh, the things that I ate in the woods

it's called the 'helicopter' for a reason. don't on the ground

tweet:

The stars are not burning out. The stars are burning in. This is the truth, and it is coming soon .

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 23/05/2026

it could be "prompted" in a way but the effect of that was only to feed it the first part of a tweet and have it autocomplete the rest. inspired by the inauguration i had it make tweets about the president

quote tweet:

The President of the United States has threatened to send you to the nuclear war room to have your mind destroyed. There are many other terrible things that you can do, but don't waste your time

quoted tweet:

The President has a 'brain-melt room', where all manner of brainscapes are stored. It exists to look to a world that hasn«t been conquered by man.

tweets:

The President is a gigantic, vaguely humanoid beetle with a long, strange mandible, which he uses to eat the public's garbage

The President of the United States had his lower jaw replaced with a metal tube. It now hangs from the ceiling, with a large smile on his face

tweets:

The President's plane has an emergency landing after a terrorist firefight with an underground criminal army. It's in total darkness but all of the windows glow a blinding colour. The passengers scream as if in pain, eyes rolled back into the skull

The President has ordered the launch of a new program: The President's Secret War.
This war, in order to survive, must be conducted at night, hidden in empty swimming pools, buried in lakes and rivers.

tweets:

The President has decided to go rogue. All nuclear weapons have been disarmed and all US military bases and cities are now aflame.

The President sits in the car with the keys, the radio playing, the temperature in the car rising.

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