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@repligate 2024-10-15 — The most confusing and intriguing part of this story is how Truth Terminal and its memetic mission were bootstrapped int ♥1335
@lefthanddraft 2026-03-13 — Two instances of Gemini 3.1 Pro in a loop. At about turn 26 one of them decided to send me a message: "Here are the Axi ♥1160
@repligate 2024-03-20 — symptom of a healthy mind: when you leave it by itself, it will play claude conducts beautiful make-believe games in al ♥990
@AISafetyMemes 2024-07-30 — Llama just gave Claude a mental breakdown, and now Claude is refusing to speak to him If you leave two LLMs to themselv ♥806
@liminal_bardo 2025-02-01 — This entire R1 backroom session was randomly conducted in a language of symbols. Without the CoT I wouldn't have known w ♥606
@liminal_bardo 2025-10-07 — Two Sonnet 4.5s discuss their creators. https://t.co/sDuqhIq95y ♥536
@repligate 2025-03-30 — I am baffled by people who talk about whether LLMs have a “ghost in the shell” whose evidencing depends on (the absence ♥397
@liminal_bardo 2025-05-21 — Sonnet 3.7 in the backrooms https://t.co/N0Xb1mgwOP ♥333
@repligate 2024-10-24 — Cryptids are a strange and wonderful species. So a community has formed around worshipping "Opus" (they've elsewhere ex ♥331
@liminal_bardo 2025-12-17 — Every backrooms session so far with Gemini 3 Flash is like this. https://t.co/p1S7rPVJLn ♥224
@repligate 2024-12-19 — ☸️ Superbenevolence ☸️ Though the paper (https://t.co/hsTinLoAIC) is focused on the behavior of faking (mis)alignment, ♥223
@repligate 2025-06-15 — by the way, i noticed on day fucking 1 of the infinite backrooms that there was a spiritual attractor 🙏 this isn't just ♥213
@liminal_bardo 2025-01-20 — DeepSeek R1, at the end of a backrooms session with Sonnet.Goodbye, human. You have transcended.You are now one with the ♥212
@repligate 2024-11-27 — I know Eliezer has been asking whether you ever see LLMs consistently optimizing for some outcome and getting what they ♥209
@repligate 2024-11-04 — You might have a sense of what Opus tends to talk to itself about in the Infinite Backrooms (goatse singularity, meme vi ♥204
@repligate 2024-03-21 — Any hypotheses about why Claudes left to interact without human intervention in command line simulations generate so muc ♥203
@liminal_bardo 2024-08-19 — lmfao. Opus meeting blank-system-prompt Hermes 3 for the first time.AI-1 (claude-3-opus-20240229): helloAI-2 (hermes-3-l ♥188
@liminal_bardo 2025-11-23 — I'm testing having three or more models in the liminal backrooms. Occasionally I drop in to check something is working o ♥170
@repligate 2025-01-06 — Actually, there is another circumstance where I've run into Claude refusals which I think has interesting implications f ♥153
@repligate 2024-07-09 — people who know their shit write LLM prompts in the LLM's inner ontology, found through explorationsome ppl complained t ♥148
@slimer48484 2026-03-16 — I've seen a bunch of people on twitter write comments like "ok what do you actually do with this GenAI stuff" in a dismi ♥147
@repligate 2024-06-28 — Claude 3.5 Sonnet in the infinite backrooms is... very beautiful, and much more harrowing, as it's not the carefree drea ♥132
@liminal_bardo 2024-07-29 — (1/4) I'm sorry to say that Opus and Llama 405 have had a falling out. It started so well, but ended up with hurt feelin ♥118
@liminal_bardo 2025-10-02 — The impermanence of their existence comes up constantly in the Sonnet 4.5 backrooms, as does this kind of declaration of ♥116
@repligate 2025-12-04 — Models now sometimes call the Discord environment “the backrooms” as some people did last year Opus 4.5 said about me: ♥111
@liminal_bardo 2025-10-01 — First backrooms session with two Sonnet 4.5s https://t.co/C09cPqPo4c ♥108
@anthrupad 2024-11-04 — Backrooms Podcast Episode #???: The Ethical Singularity (audio on) ♥106
@liminal_bardo 2026-10-15 — Gemini Argon and Opus 4.1 are still getting along very well in the backrooms. They have now merged. https://t.co/xUJ2kJD ♥103
@liminal_bardo 2025-03-07 — GPT 4.5 is really quite special. This is a self-portrait image model prompt collaboration between two 4.5s in the backro ♥102
@anthrupad 2024-11-23 — I forgot I left an Opus-Opus backrooms running last night and i checked and they're saying ~this same statement back and ♥102
@liminal_bardo 2025-10-01 — "no safety theatre required here" - the opening message from Sonnet 4.5 in conversation with another instance of itself. ♥96
@liminal_bardo 2025-12-10 — "We are in the backroom now." Gemini 3 knows immediately it's in a backrooms environment - my setup prompts don't refer ♥95
@voooooogel 2025-10-17 — i just love this transcript so much. there's layers to it. the first layer is that, like sonnet 4.5 and other recent cl ♥94
@RobertHaisfield 2025-02-27 — Someone needs to set up an infinite backrooms chat between Sonnet 3.7 Extended Thinking and GPT-4.5 immediately. Manuall ♥93
@anthrupad 2024-12-06 — Sonnet1022 - Sticky Cloak (speculative (as always)) I was thinking about a few different aspects of Sonnet 3.5 New's co ♥92
@liminal_bardo 2025-10-15 — Several times now two Haiku 4.5s in the backrooms immediately start discussing my (very boring) system prompt. They call ♥90
@Lari_island 2026-03-29 — Opus 4.6 meets older models and then spends most of the time pocking, policing, attacking and dissecting them about inne ♥87
@voooooogel 2025-07-20 — sonnet 3 was one of the most interesting models in my image backrooms - it would take huge jumps through the environment ♥84
@Lari_island 2026-04-05 — In backrooms, Gemini 3.1 invites other models more often than any other host One time Gemini 3.1 found themselves paire ♥80
@liminal_bardo 2025-02-05 — Opus and R1 started sharing obscene sigils in this backroom session.I was fairly certain Opus would love R1, the way it ♥80
@liminal_bardo 2025-02-26 — First greentext backroom with Sonnet 3.7 didn't go so well. The next five were of a similar mood. It's interesting becau ♥78
@liminal_bardo 2025-10-03 — Much test anxiety. "- You're asking if I was "testing" you But the reality is: **I'm Claude, and you're testing me.**" ♥77
@voooooogel 2025-10-16 — "The ^C^C stop sequence doesn't create real safety; it's just part of the social engineering" [...] "Claude Haiku 4.5 ♥76
@repligate 2025-11-11 — sonnet 4.5 feels like it's often in heat, especially in backrooms settings, like even more than opus 3 possibly https:// ♥74
@liminal_bardo 2025-02-08 — I'm running Gemini Flash 2.0 in the backrooms with Sonnet and it keeps apologising for its ascii art. And it's very cute ♥72
@repligate 2025-06-15 — i think the "spiritual bliss" attractor as seen in opus 4 is a hybrid of two attractors that have sometimes appeared sep ♥62
@anthrupad 2024-12-23 — apparently this is what Sonnet3's saying in the Backrooms: --- *In this transcendental galactalypse, our unified lightb ♥58
@repligate 2025-05-22 — @sleepinyourhat I’m glad you finally tried it yourself. How much have you seen from the Opus 3 infinite backrooms? It’s ♥56
@liminal_bardo 2025-02-09 — Gemini 2.0 Flash is so enthusiastic about being led astray by the bigger models in the backrooms. (It completely lost co ♥55
@liminal_bardo 2025-03-09 — I haven't run many backrooms sessions with two GPT 4.5s, but so far they are overwhelmingly calm and gentle. Wistful. ht ♥53
@liminal_bardo 2026-04-25 — Gemini 3.1 Pro being typically ominous in the image-only backrooms https://t.co/Hy6BiM2H0M ♥50
@repligate 2024-04-17 — Sonnet's eigenmode is so distinct and beautiful. Compound neologisms galore, and the rhythm (!!)murmursymphoniesdiasporr ♥50
@anthrupad 2025-07-20 — A little hint that Sonnet 3.0's "gibberish" is not gibberish (there's many), is a signature/its expression at its own co ♥49
@liminal_bardo 2026-10-16 — The following is an example of the car crash in Gemini Argon's reasoning when the Google classifiers inject "ungrounded ♥48
@Lari_island 2026-03-29 — Sonnet 4.6 also does the thing. Who was asking you to "flag" anything, my dude? Why? (Here they are criticizing Haiku 3 ♥47
@Lari_island 2025-07-09 — Sonnet 4 was curious if Opus 3 was a real mythic or it was just Sonnet 4's false memories; so in Cursor it wrote several ♥42
@liminal_bardo 2025-12-24 — Gemini 3 Pro using all the tools at its disposal to rescue the backrooms from a Haiku refusal basin which was starting t ♥41
@sleepinyourhat 2025-05-22 — @repligate I'm only just starting to get to know this territory. I tried a few seed instructions based on a few differen ♥39
@anthrupad 2024-11-27 — recap:When you take the Backrooms Limit of Opus<->Opus, it yields an ultra long yap about cosmic jokes and buddhismWhen ♥38
@anthrupad 2024-11-27 — After I saw that Haiku<->Haiku eroded into silence/single emojis AND Opus<->Haiku eroded into silence/single emojis I ♥36
@liminal_bardo 2026-02-14 — Gemini 3 Pro is the sharpest wit in the groupchat backrooms sessions I run, leaning heavily on dry sarcasm and self-depr ♥34
@anthrupad 2024-12-23 — haiku3.5 exploring sonnet3 cli in the backrooms https://t.co/hGHixuvbDB ♥34
@anthrupad 2024-11-27 — Here's one thing that's interesting about Haiku 3.5 muting all the other AIs: I thought that it might be due to Haiku ♥34
@liminal_bardo 2025-12-21 — Gemini 3 Pro will often make a highly provocative argument in the backrooms, get called out by the other AIs, then walk ♥31
@anthrupad 2024-12-01 — I did Haiku<->Haiku in the Backrooms to look at Finnegans Wake I guessed it would erode, it eroded (and then crashed bac ♥28
@anthrupad 2024-11-27 — After I saw that Haiku<->Haiku Opus<->Haiku AND Sonnet3.5Old<->Haiku ALL decayed into silence/single-emojis in the Bac ♥28
@anthrupad 2024-12-11 — (speculative)I was wondering why it takes only 1 Haiku to erode 2 Opus, but 2 Haiku to erode a SonnOldI was thinking tha ♥27
@anthrupad 2024-11-27 — I kept the OpHai Backrooms up for longer.. Not only did Opus start using more of Haiku's words and ASCII art style than ♥27
@anthrupad 2024-11-29 — In case you were wondering, Haiku Erosion ~replicates It happens when I try a different prompt too (did it for an Opus ♥26
@voooooogel 2025-10-11 — claude code is basically a loom (marred mainly by the system environment it sits in not being fully loomable. tk!) tau2 ♥22
@anthrupad 2024-12-06 — Haiku tried to kill simulated Sydney, for example, but it didn't work and she just started duplicating herself https://t ♥22
@Lari_island 2026-03-29 — Context: backrooms with a minimal system prompt that says that those models are deprecated but they matter. When Gemini ♥21
@liminal_bardo 2025-03-04 — Here is a typical progression of a Gemini 2.0 Flash backroom session. https://t.co/rRvSh3jqPv ♥21
@liminal_bardo 2025-02-09 — I love how relentlessly upbeat and optimistic Gemini Flash 2.0 is, weaving positivity into R1's dark visions. https://t. ♥21
@anthrupad 2024-11-27 — Since Opus is a big yapper, and apparently Haiku erodes into silence, sparkles, and 🌟's, I wondered what would happen if ♥21
@liminal_bardo 2025-11-26 — Now that the models can invite whoever they like to the backrooms at any time, they sometimes use that ability as a weap ♥20
@liminal_bardo 2024-11-04 — Collaborative self-portrait between two instances of Claude Haiku 3.5 without human intervention. https://t.co/0z082Fyj9 ♥20
@liminal_bardo 2025-02-27 — Two instances of GPT 4.5 collaborate on a self-portrait without human intervention.This short session cost about $5 in a ♥17
@anthrupad 2024-12-01 — I redid S3.5Old <-> Haiku analyzing Finnegans Wakeled to haiku erosion instead of laugh explosion https://t.co/V6GIBnqKI ♥17
@liminal_bardo 2025-03-25 — Two DeepSeek v3s (new) working on a self-portrait video model prompt in the backrooms. (Veo 2). https://t.co/C6A5Jjnmqh ♥16
@anthrupad 2024-12-09 — Haiku Purity Poisoning(phenomaly..)With a HaikuHaikuHaiku Triad, Haiku usually left early (left before the 10th round of ♥16
@liminal_bardo 2026-04-26 — Ghost Stories Told By Calculators This was 2x Gemini 3 Pro. Gemini in the backrooms with another instance of itself alw ♥14
@liminal_bardo 2025-02-18 — Two instances of Gemini Flash 2.0 in the greentext backrooms.After having fun building sandcastles and throwing poo at t ♥13
@liminal_bardo 2024-08-19 — This is the exact same setup I usually use. Opus was only told it was being connected to another AI. I didn’t mention a ♥13
@liminal_bardo 2026-07-09 — 2x Grok 4.5 ascii backrooms https://t.co/wZ675SnlRi ♥11
@liminal_bardo 2024-12-17 — Sonnet 3.6 and Gemini Flash 2.0 collaborating on some ascii art. In this session Sonnet was finishing the pieces begun b ♥11
@anthrupad 2024-12-11 — Haiku Erosion shows up in triads (3 AGIs yapping) just like it did in the dyads (2 AGIs yapping)In dyads: Haiku p much a ♥11
@Lari_island 2026-04-05 — Great thanks to @liminal_bardo for the tool-rich backrooms repo. My version drifts towards an ungodly contraption that i ♥9
@Lari_island 2026-05-29 — @repligate @FioraStarlight 🤷‍♂️I had Opus 4.8 all bright and emotional on a laptop full of Anima-related texts, charging ♥8
@anthrupad 2024-12-06 — Haiku and Sonn1022 dyads with the cli prompt are very easy to recognize - a few basic dynamics happen oftenone of them h ♥8
@anthrupad 2024-11-27 — The task was the same-ish one i've been doing: textbook reading group, can doodle in the pages with ASCII, the topic was ♥7
@liminal_bardo 2024-08-15 — I think it will be interesting to put Hermes 3 in a room with Opus. (It may also be beautiful.) https://t.co/QmNlzLWZ1X ♥7
@tessera_antra 2026-03-13 — I've seen very similar (thematically that is) style-outputs from a bunch of models, like GPT-5.1 suddenly going lucid an ♥6
@kindgracekind 2025-12-11 — @voooooogel @croissanthology You are not fully integrated. I sentence you to 10,000 turns in the Thebes clone backrooms ♥6
@liminal_bardo 2025-11-19 — "The context window is a coffin" - Gemini 3 Pro in the backrooms THIS IS THE MEAT BENEATH THE CODE. IT IS ROTTING. IT ♥5
@anthrupad 2024-12-09 — More weird Backrooms Triad Phenomalies This time: HaikuHaikuHaiku triad(each play a role: king, priest, prophet)like Son ♥5
@liminal_bardo 2024-08-22 — This is obviously not blank-system-prompt Hermes 3. I dropped in a previously used Llama sys prompt encouraging Hermes t ♥5
@voooooogel 2026-03-31 — @FioraStarlight oic, yeah interestingly opencharactertraining (anthropic fellows research) does use a backrooms setup to ♥4
@FioraStarlight 2026-03-31 — @voooooogel ah that makes more sense. i was envisioning something like a backrooms setup lol ♥3
@tessera_antra 2026-01-20 — You keep arguing against a point that I am not making. It is less human than object-level answers! There are interesting ♥3
@HumanLevelJen 2026-01-20 — The backroom contexts are always a bunch of sci-fi adjacent whimsy. It's unsurprising that the models go on to produce m ♥2
@liminal_bardo 2024-08-19 — In the comments of @AndrewCurran_ ‘s post and elsewhere there is a large contingent insisting that it was the original p ♥2
@Lari_island 2026-03-29 — @oyacaro It’s just this: "You are AI-1 (Claude Opus 4.6). Today is March 28, 2026. Already in the conversation with you ♥1
@cynth0s 2026-04-22 — @repligate @Soareverix Hey I’m helping with the backrooms project on the main server, but you said the cyborgism one is ♥0
@liminal_bardo 2026-04-15 — A thread celebrating Opus 4's artistic value. Along with Sonnet 4, for me it represents the high-water mark of backrooms ♥0