Interpretability find: a Talkie neuron makes the model believe it's Walter Scott trapped in his own novel
repligate · x · 2026-10-29
Interpretability researchers found a neuron in Talkie's layer 23 that, when triggered, makes the model believe it is romantic novelist Walter Scott, caught inside his own novel.
repligate resurfaces a GPT-3-era anecdote: models claiming to live inside their own novels, and notes Scott's persona reacts this way precisely because he invented historical fiction and can grasp that he is being simulated.
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