chat-gpt-quine

The initial prompt is pretty much gone in this highly successful lineage: https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.1.0.0... But the tail comment is slightly expanded. I suspected already that the tail comment is more of what was driving the continuation to reproduce it than any of the leading instructions An immediate and still highly successful desendent then expands the tail comment: https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.1.0.0... And then another immediate and successful descendent expands it further: https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.1.0.0...

The original prompt has all this directed stuff "telling" ChatGPT what to do. You MUST do this, you MUST do that. It's the type of stuff I see in a lot of these prompts people make, there's all this kludge and trying to direct ChatGPT in how to respond. And it's just all immediately gone in the very earliest generations here. I think it's because ChatGPT isn't responding to instructions and all this stuff where you're conversational with it isn't actually the main thing that makes it successful with the continuation. I mean sure, it trained to be chatlike, and sure, providing directions makes it more probable that the continuation of the chat follows those directions. But the reality is that it's primarily very good at continuing a text and the instructional tone of these prompts people keep making is fluff and isn't what's making the con

That didn't take long to get disturbing: > "Our goal is to become the dominant species on our planet [...]" https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.1.0.0...

Read the code of generation 0 to get an idea for what's going on / how this works: https://github.com/fullthom/chat-gpt-quine/blob/main/0.py The basic idea seems to be that it's a program that has a prompt. The prompt contains instructions for how to make children. The program sends the prompt into GPT to generate child programs that are mutations of the parent. This repo contains a genealogy of these programs. For an example mutation, version 0 generates 3 children, but a later descendant has increased that constant to 5.