Image record
Shoggoth with Smiley Face
The 2022 meme depicting a language model as an eldritch creature wearing a small smiley-face mask, used in the essay alongside the limits of mechanistic interpretability.
Unverifieddraft
- Creator
- @TetraspaceWest
- Created
- 2022
- Medium
- meme
- Rights
- fair dealingShoggoth with Smiley Face, @TetraspaceWest, 2022
The essay uses it for the gap between the interface and whatever is behind it, and is careful to say that determining what is actually behind it is the project of mechanistic interpretability rather than something the meme settles.
One of the few images in the collection whose creator is an online pseudonym, which
is why creator accepts a plain string rather than requiring a Person record.
Links to
- used in
- You Can't Shame a Fork
Referenced by
- illustrated by
- You Can't Shame a Fork
Source: knowledge/images/shoggoth.md
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