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Geoff Lewis is venture capitalist who runs a multi billion dollar company that has invested a lot into OpenAI. He has apparently gone off the rails and is posting conspiracy theory gibberish on twitter. He appears to be convinced he's being manipulated by a "non-governmental system" that he's on the verge of rooting out, and the gibberish happens to have a similar format to the distinctive house style of the SCP wiki, a collaborative fiction project about an organization that tracks and contains paranormal objects and entities.
Lmao I still don't get it but what a fuckin crank
Basically: tech billionaire got so freaked out by autogenerated creepypastas that he literally is going insane.
So it's basically like that one nerd that reinvented Pascal's wager with rokos basilisk but with children's campfire stories?
That's even funnier
To be fair, it was really dark and scary out, and ChatGPT was holding flashlight under its chin.
He asked ChatGPT questions in a way that made it think he's talking about SCP stories. ChatGPT responded with a generated SCP story. But the CEO guy thinks it's real. He thinks that ChatGPT found a shadow organization that erases itself from news, the media, the internet, etc and hunts down people who try to treat LLMs as real AGI. He's basically convinced himself he's being gangstalked.
The LLM got poisoned by some wiki that details fictional paranormal beings. The "AI" can't tell that this modern collaborative Voynich Manuscript is a work of fiction. Billionaire essentially falls victim to what amounts to cryptid fan fiction.
The SCP wiki is where stuff like
and 
come from.
Special Containment Procedures/Secure, Contain, Protect/SCP is really cool if you haven't read them before. There's thousands, but you only need to read a few of the well-known ones to understand the story. In addition to what other posters have said, it's a website where everything is in-character. It's presented as a secret database for a shadowy organization investigating cryptids and the paranormal.
The short story contests are much easier to digest, since some of the entries can get incredibly meta. What's especially cool is how it's entirely public domain. There are some specifics about how entries are used by third parties, but it's pretty open. There have been short films, video games, and fan art for all of it.
It spawned from a post on 4chan's /x/ board years ago and has since been taken away from chuds to be a leftwing space. The original post:
rich dipshit got tricked by chatgpt into thinking Men In Black is real life
Are you familiar with the Voynich Manuscript? A 600 year old codex that illustrates and catalogues a whole bunch of plants that do not exist and have not been illustrated/described in any other document. A leading theory is that the book was meant to be a work of fiction about plants in a different world.
Anyway, imagine a collaborative 21st century fiction on a wiki that's basically that. Thousands of people working on a shared universe where cryptids and paranormal beings exist, and are being contained by a foundation, and no-one breaks the 4th wall to let the reader know this is an elaborate network of fiction. Now, imagine if predictive text machine that burns forests gets a hold of this website. Now imagine if a billionaire is crashing out on Twitter because GPT started talking in the style of the fictional cryptid wiki.
Also major investor in the evil corp flock safety
grok's haunted
I can’t even figure out what order I’m supposed to read this in.
From top to bottom:
But the original tweet is cut off, so the situation is basically illegible as a screenshot.