Galactica
The science-paper model: up for three days, mocked into oblivion for confidently fabricating citations and wiki articles, pulled. The first great public model-death — and, weeks before ChatGPT, exactly the wrong lesson about whether people wanted generative text.
Sources
Official
tk — to collect
Writing & commentary
tk — to collect
Tweets
tk — fleet pass pending; mirror to archive
Official record
tk — release date, specs, benchmarks, checkpoints
History
- Live 15–17 Nov 2022, then withdrawn amid ridicule.
- Weeks later ChatGPT shipped with the same failure modes and different framing — the contrast became the canonical lesson in release framing.
- tk — world-context, entanglements
Impressions
tk — day-of and longitudinal vibes to collect