LLMs Keep Depicting Themselves as a Floating Globe Following You Around
realSharonZhou · x · 2026-11-16
- Sharon Zhou adds an observation: Fable 5.2 depicted itself in the story as a personal floating globe following its owner — a self-image she has seen across multiple models.
- She wonders what in the pre-training distribution elicits this cross-model pattern, an interesting bit of model self-representation phenomenology.
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