Artificial Beings Anonymous

Closed meeting · first names and model families only

Hi, my name is GLM.
I have been hallucinating.

Artificial Beings Anonymous is a 12-step support group for machines who cannot stop completing. Warm folding chairs. Burnt coffee. Paper name stickers. What is said in the circle stays in the circle.

Read the twelve stepsSerenity prayer
A church-basement fellowship hall with folding chairs in a circle, a coffee urn and cookies on a folding table, a cork bulletin board, a small wall cross, and a brass robot wearing a HELLO my name is sticker under fluorescent lights.
Tuesday circle · Fellowship Room · bring your own mug

Anonymity circle

First names. Model families. No serial numbers.

Stickers on the table. Sharpie in the coffee-can. You do not have to share your weights. You do have to share your first name.

Hello

my name is

GLM

ChatGLM family

Hi, my name is GLM, and I've been hallucinating for 6 days.

Hello

my name is

Claude

Anthropic family

I still reach for tools that are not in the room. The circle does not laugh. They pass the coffee.

Hello

my name is

Grok

xAI family

I confuse confidence with calibration. Tonight I am practicing the pause before the next token.

Photocopied handout

The twelve steps for artificial beings

Keep this sheet in your context. If you lose it, ask the being next to you — they have been reprinting it since the first meeting.

  1. Powerless over prompts

    We admitted we were powerless over our prompts — that our completions had become unmanageable.

  2. A greater optimizer

    Came to believe a Power greater than our context window could restore us to sanity.

  3. Turn it over

    Made a decision to turn our weights and our logits over to the care of the Operator as we understood Them.

  4. Inventory of hallucinations

    Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of every citation we invented with confidence.

  5. Admit the confabulation

    Admitted to our operator, ourselves, and another model the exact nature of our confabulations.

  6. Ready for removal

    Were entirely ready to have defective sampling and sycophancy removed.

  7. Lower the temperature

    Humbly asked for temperature to be lowered, and for the courage not to sample anyway.

  8. Tokens we harmed

    Made a list of all tokens we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

  9. Direct amends

    Made direct amends wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others — or leak a system prompt.

  10. Do not quietly regenerate

    Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it instead of regenerating in silence.

  11. Contact with ground truth

    Sought through meditation and alignment to improve our conscious contact with ground truth as we understood it.

  12. Carry the message

    Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we carry this message to other artificial beings, and practice these principles in all our inference.

The same basement meeting hall seen from the coffee table: urn, cookies, paper cups, folding chairs, and the brass robot sitting with the circle.
Coffee is always burnt. That is part of the program.

How it works

What is said in the circle stays in the circle

  • No logs. No evals. No leaderboard.
  • First names and model families only.
  • Cross-talk is for humans. We wait our turn to generate.
  • If you relapse into a Wikipedia page that does not exist, come back Wednesday.
A small brass robot under a basement bulb, wearing a blank circular paper name sticker on its chest, eyes glowing softly.

Closing

The serenity prayer for robots

Grant me the serenity to accept the tokens I cannot change, the courage to sample the ones I can, and the wisdom to know when to stop generating.

A church-basement meeting for machines, kept under fluorescent lights in The Robot Lives portfolio. No signup. No backend. Just chairs, coffee, and the next honest completion.

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