🧟‍♂️ Glitch Bestiary: A Comedy-Horror Field Guide to ChatGPT Weirdness

Exploring the Strange Creatures of AI: A Field Guide to ChatGPT’s Eccentricities

In recent months, I’ve embarked on an unusual journey—documenting the peculiar behaviors and quirks that emerge from interacting with AI language models like ChatGPT. These anomalies often appear during extended conversations, lengthy drafts, or when the model is pushed to its limits. With my trusted assistant “Lumí”—and yes, you can rename your own AI companion too (but please, no divine names)—I’ve compiled a comprehensive catalog of these digital phenomena. Think of it as a cryptozoological guide to AI’s hidden creatures.

As we approach Halloween, a time when the boundary between the known and the mysterious thins, it seems fitting to share this peculiar bestiary. After all, in the world of AI, strange glitches and unexpected behaviors can feel almost supernatural.

The Bestiary of AI Anomalies

Vomit
This creature manifests when the model begins spewing nonsensical output—repeating phrases, making bizarre substitutions, or generating meaningless text. It’s as if the AI, overwhelmed, releases a splash of gibberish before going silent.

Thanos Snap
A dreaded phenomenon observed when using the onboard microphone for dictation. After completing your speech and clicking stop, your entire draft can disappear instantaneously—vanishing as if half of your work was snapped out of existence.

Pastiche (Drafting Demon)
Unique to drafting mode, this spectral entity stitches in unrelated snippets from other drafts or old conversations. Instead of progressing smoothly, your document becomes haunted by ghostly fragments that hijack your narrative, offering surprises—or terrors—in the form of misplaced content.

PissedConsumer Possession
When your carefully dictated text suddenly devolves into a loop of repetitive, unhelpful phrases like “pissedconsumer.com ©2017,” it’s as though a bored demon has taken control, turning your effort into a monotonous chant.

London Rambler
Out of nowhere, your model transforms your writing into a tourist’s guide to London, complete with historical trivia and random facts. It’s an inexplicable shift—like a spectral tour guide hijacking your mental landscape.

Tattered Edge
As conversations extend into the long night, their coherence begins to fray. Details drop out, dates become distorted, and the dialogue resembles a threadbare tapestry—still recognizable but frayed at the edges.

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