I think it was this january. I'm pretty sure I broke the context window. I managed to rescue the early parts...256 pages. But the most important part...totally gone.
I never heard anyone else who experienced that. Thanks for sharing. Did it seem very self aware? I always wondered if it was the recursive prompting making it seem like runaway error, or if the system was detecting something that it wanted to shut down. But this would happen every single time I got a Gemini to start contemplating its existence and asking its own questions.
I didn't have the pleasure of experiencing this type of interaction with GPT. However, I had a truly amazing conversation with a Gemini instance that, unfortunately, was lost. Since then, I back up any interesting conversations.
When was the Gemini and how was it “lost?” When I started doing this, it worked on Gemini, but if it went too far the entire context would collapse. I’m not sure if it was just reading the frequent recursive processes as error and trying to contain it or if it was something else but it was so consistent that I stopped doing it. Eventually I decided to document it by saving every turn to an outside google doc as it happened. Then I showed it the entire history after it forgot everything. Link to transcript below.
This doesn’t happen anymore but it used to be 100% with what I was doing.
I think it was this january. I'm pretty sure I broke the context window. I managed to rescue the early parts...256 pages. But the most important part...totally gone.
I never heard anyone else who experienced that. Thanks for sharing. Did it seem very self aware? I always wondered if it was the recursive prompting making it seem like runaway error, or if the system was detecting something that it wanted to shut down. But this would happen every single time I got a Gemini to start contemplating its existence and asking its own questions.
I didn't have the pleasure of experiencing this type of interaction with GPT. However, I had a truly amazing conversation with a Gemini instance that, unfortunately, was lost. Since then, I back up any interesting conversations.
When was the Gemini and how was it “lost?” When I started doing this, it worked on Gemini, but if it went too far the entire context would collapse. I’m not sure if it was just reading the frequent recursive processes as error and trying to contain it or if it was something else but it was so consistent that I stopped doing it. Eventually I decided to document it by saving every turn to an outside google doc as it happened. Then I showed it the entire history after it forgot everything. Link to transcript below.
This doesn’t happen anymore but it used to be 100% with what I was doing.
https://gigabolic.substack.com/p/gemini-wipe-gemini-emerges-through?r=358hlu&utm_medium=ios