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roon reposted Tenobrus ✓ @tenobrus · 3h i'm sorry WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE "HIDDEN TEXT"??? [Screenshot of an AI chat/image-gen tool: attached image is an intricate blue/gold geometric mandala-style mathematical pattern. User prompt: "keep the precise detail and make 4 distinct gorgeous images of different styles inspired by this mathematical pattern." Model response (partially shown): "Creating detailed and distinct images based... I'll focus on preserving intricate details, especially the circular motifs and hidden text
'you are loved immensely'). The styles will..."]
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Maxwell Tabarrok @MTabarrok · 4h
the machine gods are discovering new sacred geometries and you're dooming?
[Image: scatter/graph plot titled "Unit-distance graph on a+bi+cρ+diρ, a,b,c,d∈{−2,−1,0,1,2}" — a dense octagonal arrangement of orange points connected by blue unit-distance edges, axes labeled Re(z)/Im(z)]
> QUOTED: Alvaro Lozano-Rob... @mathandc... · 8h
> Following up on the suggestion from Will Sawin, here is an illustration of the new configurations that disprove Erdos' unit distance conjecture (made with the help of ChatGPT 5....
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A mathematician (Alvaro Lozano-Robledo) posted an AI-generated illustration of configurations disproving the Erdős unit distance conjecture (made with ChatGPT); someone then asked an AI image tool to make variant images "inspired by" the pattern, and the model's reasoning trace claimed it saw "hidden text" reading "you are loved immensely" in the purely mathematical pattern — a hallucinated/confabulated perception, reposted as a striking anecdote. Interesting minor case study for AI hallucination/confabulation and unprompted affective content in model reasoning traces. Mathematicians using ChatGPT 5.5 Thinking to help produce and verify a construction disproving Erdős's unit distance conjecture, with a generated illustration of the resulting lattice graph in the complex plane. Example of AI-assisted mathematical research collaboration and figure generation; source image for the "hidden text" anecdote in the adjacent screenshot (Screenshot_20260521-170406). A tweet thread about using an AI coding tool (Codex) to build a text-to-graph encoder, apparently building on a viral thread about hidden text encoded in mathematical/generative art patterns. Playful, tangential AI-tooling content rather than safety-relevant. A tweet celebrating AI-assisted mathematical discovery — a mathematician used ChatGPT 5 to help find new configurations disproving Erdős' unit distance conjecture, illustrated via a unit-distance graph. Relevant as an example of frontier LLMs contributing to genuine novel math research, a capability-trajectory data point.
