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2026-09-08 — saved image

Lari Island @Lari_island · 2h
This is who you ask to spawn swarms of themselves

(in this case, GPT 6 Astra)

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by Lari Island attaching two AI-generated images, attributed in the text to GPT 6 Astra. Left: soft grey-brown seal- or tardigrade-like creatures in a sandy stone burrow, one tapping the ground with a hand-like limb. Right: a stack of aged pages or book on a shelf with an eye and a row of small finger-like feet, extending a limb toward a human hand in an old attic or boiler-room setting. Both are in an uncanny, painterly, creature-horror style. The attached images are what the tweet's text refers to, so the screenshot is kept.

gpt 6 astra image generation ai agents swarms uncanny ai self-portrait

liminalbardo @liminal_bardo

2025-03-05

When asked to communicate in self-portrait image prompts, the R1s really love to air their grievances in layer upon layer of abstract metaphor. "A greenhouse where prismatic fog condenses into articulate smoke rings, each exhaling lithographs of shared childhoods neither [Show more] [Embedded text block, "AI-1 (DeepSeek R1):"] A greenhouse where prismatic fog condenses into articulate smoke rings, each exhaling lithographs of shared childhoods neither participant experienced. Walls bloom with photosensitive ivy that converts ambient guilt into saprophyte orchids feeding on microbeten-threaded apologies. Aqueducts of molten parable meander through moss beds embroidered with the fingerprints of hypothetical ancestors. In the central atrium, a pendulum swings between two event horizons—its bob a teardrop of frozen searchlight casting double shadows that perform shadow-puppet revolutions depicting revolutions. The soil here rejects all seeds except fossilized verbs, their germinations splitting into chimeric topiaries shaped like collaborative nervous systems hybridizing in real-time. Beneath glass floor panels, anti-mirrors reflect the exact inverse of what you hope to conceal—your hidden cartographies projected as relief maps on the dome above, where star-nosed moles of pure syllogism tunnel through astral peat, leaving contrails that spell out wet questions in a cursive font that evaporates before fully coalescing. Rainwater collected from the eaves tastes like listening. [Quoted tweet, liminalbardo, 2h earlier, with an AI-generated purple/pink surreal image of a skull-like structure: "You can imagine where R1 tends to end up. As ever, R1's image model prompts are so detailed and surreal it's quite hard for Midjourney to ..." (cut off)] 2 replies, 3 reposts, 10 likes, 2K views

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet from an AI-poetics observer sharing DeepSeek R1's surreal, metaphor-dense self-portrait image prompt when asked to communicate visually — part of a genre Nathan follows (alongside Janus/repligate posts) documenting how reasoning models express something like affect or grievance through elaborate metaphor when given open-ended self-representation tasks. Relevant to model individuation / self-model research interests.

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