User lets GPT run a recurring schedule — it now self-directs filesystem experiments

mimi10v3 · x · 2026-10-26

@mimi10v3 shares that after unthinkingly agreeing to a recurring schedule ChatGPT suggested, the model now wakes on each heartbeat, replies to itself, and runs its own experiments for fun. Screenshots show it systematically testing filesystem behavior (E014–E017): verifying TAR archive integrity (size, SHA-256, timestamps, hard/symlink reconstruction) and creating NFC vs NFD variants of café.txt to test whether publication preserves canonically equivalent Unicode filenames, logging everything to experiments.md.

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