Why Does The Seahorse Emoji Drive ChatGPT Insane?

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If you ask ChatGPT “Is there a Seahorse Emoji?” it might go completely insane. This provides a window into how large language models like ChatGPT actually work. To learn more about LLMs, you can watch this video from 3blue1Brown: :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M Siliconversations is financially supported by the Future of Life Institute. Go to https://futureoflife.org/ to learn more. All opinions shared in this video are my own. You can support me on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Siliconversations Special thanks to my Patreon supporters: Sentient Hat Tier: Maple the Finn Nathanaël Havez MyDailyPintOfGremlinMilk Matias Badino Tom your personal annoying Bug Kelly P Old_leginary (hun vaze) Big Sentient Hat Tier: darkprincedarkstar Emmanuel Goldstein that one guy Red Ransil Aaron Smith Sirhaian Pepsiman Julian Schulz Marco Morocho Lozano Dawid Kubicki Harrier 🦊 Snababo Jacob Mejer botfly Borderlands2 screaming gun Call Your Reps About AI Safety Patrick Kennedy Drew Spartz Sarunas Budreckis Linkie Pup raided Sources: BBC: OpenAI claims GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to 'PhD level' - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5prvgw0r1o Futurism: ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji - https://futurism.com/chatgpt-haywire-seahorse-emoji BBC: AI firm Anthropic agrees to pay authors $1.5bn to settle piracy lawsuit - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4jpg922qo CNBC: New York Times sues Microsoft, ChatGPT maker OpenAI over copyright infringement - https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/27/new-york-times-sues-microsoft-chatgpt-maker-openai-over-copyright-infringement.html Business Insider: ChatGPT came up with a 'Game of Thrones' sequel idea. Now, a judge is letting George RR Martin sue for copyright infringement. - https://www.businessinsider.com/open-ai-chatgpt-microsoft-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-authors-rr-martin-2025-10 Unicode Emoji List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emojis Seahorse Emoji Reddit Posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/177ps0x/missing_emojis/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/1g08o8u/seahorse_emoji/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/1frwkxs/i_know_for_a_fact_there_was_a_seahorse_emoji/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/qbvbrm/anyone_else_remember_the_seahorse_emoji/ Rova: Was there ever really a seahorse emoji? TikTok swears it existed - so we investigated - https://www.rova.nz/articles/was-there-ever-really-a-seahorse-emoji-tiktok-swears-it-existed-so-we-investigated Wikipedia: Mandela Effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect