Missing the Hilarious Hallucinations of Early GPT-3
Merzmensch · x · 2026-07-16
The author shared an absurdly funny hallucination case from early GPT-3: when asked "Who is Merzmensch (the author's username)?", GPT-3 confidently fabricated a bizarre backstory. It claimed the author was a giant robot awakened by the "suspicions" of a character named Würstchen (German for little sausage), and that Würstchen had received a package from Japan labeled Japonica. This characteristic of early models making up nonsense with a straight face has sparked a wave of nostalgia.
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