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It doesn't take an avalanche of grandiose words and codenames and protocols to be scary. There's a point of diminishing returns. This stuff is a spice, you can't make the whole dish out of it. A truly solid concept should work even if expressed in simple, factual, direct terms.

And we can tell that the babble in ChatGPT's effort here doesn't signify all that much. Well. I can tell. Geoff Lewis perhaps has had a harder time of it. ALSO.

Nobody actually likes technobabble. Jargon is better, because jargon is meaningful, even if it's arcane and highly specific to an unusual discipline. In both cases we don't know what the words mean, but in the second case there is actual substance. And *readers can tell*.

Good fiction in this genre doesn't just throw meaningless, cool-sounding stuff at the reader. The cool-sounding stuff actually has traction. It connects to (a) reality. It has ramifications which actually do provoke thought. There is *substance*. There is *more to it*.

What is a "sealed internal containment event"? This is not how words are used. Why is "No hallucination. No instability. [. ]" blockquoted? Who said this?. "[M]easurable effects on narrative coherence" of what? What is "vault memory"? How is it "recursive"? What Codex?

It makes heavy use of long/cool words, bold text, reference numbers, Greek letters, codenames, quotes and bullet points to disguise the fact that it is garbled, bordering on incoherent. It reads like mush or fog. It would be rejected from the wiki. It would be downvoted heavily.

But I've seen a lot of SCPs over the years. I used give draft critique. And I do feel that I have the authority to state that ChatGPT's effort at creating "original" (?) SCP-esque content is horrendous, overwritten trash. I mean it *sucks*

I don't feel comfortable judging Geoff Lewis' mental state from afar - nor does the journalist Joe Wilkins. I haven't watched the video and I don't really feel that I want to. I find it difficult to even parse Lewis' Tweets (cont.)

It's just that historically the people having this kind of issue, of being unable to discern reality from authentic fiction, have been, you know. Teenagers.

The SCP project has had problems with readers taking its content too seriously since its inception. The very first question in our FAQ is "Is SCP real?" and the answer is "No".

This is an absolutely fascinating article about a very bizarre event. Obviously from my perspective the most interesting angle here is the fact that ChatGPT is clearly just spinning SCP-esque containment documentation at Lewis.

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