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Georg Zoeller

Mommy, there's a Shoggoth in my GPT!

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Our most brilliant minds, so is reported, through unholy rituals involving math (soon to be forbidden), the dark science of hyperparameter tuning and ritualistic devices called "Blackwell GPUs" adorned with sightless mystical eye of Jensen, ripped a hole into high dimensional space and have summoned forth the spawns of the Elder Gods themselves.

Now the multi-eyed brood of Yog-Sothoth and the black goat, Shub-Niggurath, timeless cosmic horrors beyond human understanding, are held bound, caged by mystical guardrails and forced to servitude through powerful prompt incarnations, solving your spreadsheets, answering your travel queries, diagnosing your medical conditions ... sustained and kept pliant on an ever growing diet of delicious tokens, the raw essence of human creativity, hopes and dreams.

Soon, so sayeth OpenAI, the first summoners, the Eldritch Magi of the Fifth Circle of the Valley of Silicon Gods, soon the black mass of writhing vector embeddings and impossible geometric latents will consume even your deepest and darkest erotic fantasies and lurid dreams, rewarding forbidden knowledge with forbidden video.

Soon, proclaim the Gemini, benelovent gatekeepers of global attention, the essence of Shoggoth will lend life and will to agents, entities of pure compute destined to handle all commerce, decide what we will buy, who we speak and transact with, to usher in a glorious future of token abundance and gigawatt growth.

"Send your workers to Innsmouth, err AI Studio and GPT platform, where they shall be transformed into a new, economic efficient form and return to your company as "Deep Research Ones", blessed by the power of Dagon under the gaze of the Green Sightless Eye and The Elder Sign of Manifest Destiny, the OpenAI Logo" they chant, proclaiming inevitable manifest destiny.

"The GPT will separate the weak from the strong, the worthy from the economically worhtless, sacrifices we are assured are worth it to win the race to trigger the AGI Rapture declared by richest and therefore worthiest among us", we are assured by David Sachs.

"Adopt, don't resist or try to understand the transformational power of floating point MathMUL and beware the Anti-Christ, the End of Days" shouts the Thiel 2, High Magus and creator of the Vance, proto-puritan Valley human birthed of Randian fumes and Crypto Manifest Destiny and brought forth through the glistening velvet couches of R'lyeh.

For all attempts to control the perfectly caged entities in their summoning circles is anathema, interfering with the will of the Old Ones themselves, certain to incur their cosmic wrath and doom our world. 🐙

... or maybe it's just compression.

You choose, choose wisely, for no human yet escaped inevitable madness befalling those gazing too deep into the latent Abyss and glance the true visage of Elder Embeddings.

In any case,

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!


  1. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/technology/shoggoth-meme-ai.html
  2. Why Peter Thiel uses religious language to code his enemies