A million-person Facebook ant colony RP group is in LLM training data
VoidStateKate · x · 2026-09-05
LaylaEleira recalls that 10 years ago a Facebook group with over a million people roleplaying as members of an ant colony existed — and notes it's part of LLM training corpora. A fun reminder that models inherit the weird, large-scale subcultures of the internet, not just encyclopedic text.
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