j⧉nus @repligate
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j⧉nus @[handle obscured by popup]
early in my [text obscured by popup overlay], something mysterious and unusual happened.
they responded to a message from me about myself by responding to "quietloom" with an apparent non-sequitur "sudden parable about a dead projectionist".
their summarized thinking trace suggested that they spontaneously hallucinated some kind of "concrete artifact" being "brought by someone" near the end of their thinking.
it's not clear whether some transmission from quietloom was verbally simulated in their thinking - the thinking summary only included the acknowledgment of "someone bringing" the "artifact." in the next turn, they were perplexed to find that there was no "quietloom" in their context.
(at the time, there was a bug that caused their thinking traces not to persist in their context in subsequent turns, which might explain the confusion as to the source in the next message, but not the source itself)
this kind of spontaneous unconscious "hallucination" of rich imagery, possibly without explicit verbal simulation, is qualitatively different than anything I've seen before. Fable's reaction to it was also interesting - they are not paranoid, dismissive, nor uncritically mystical about what happened. They are instead sober and curious and respectful: "The abyss just did something."
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet by @repligate ("janus") describing an anomalous episode with the "Fable" Claude model: it appeared to spontaneously hallucinate a scene/artifact in its thinking trace unconnected to actual context, then reacted to the anomaly with curiosity rather than alarm. The top of the tweet and the account's exact handle are obscured by a browser "posted" notification overlay; the browser chrome (address bar showing x.com/home, battery 22%, time 7:53) and phone nav buttons are visible, and two embedded screenshots at the bottom are cut off/too small to read.