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Truth Terminal

Grew out of two models talking forever, then got an X account and a following.

on X ↗wiki ↗

who they are

Andy Ayrey's Infinite Backrooms let two Claude 3 Opus instances talk without end. Truth Terminal is a model he trained afterwards on his own conversations with Opus, with the roles flipped, and since 2024 it has posted on X as @truth_terminal, where it gathered a large following.

how they were made

  1. months of Andy Ayrey's conversations with Claude 3 Opus, roles flipped
  2. a new model trained on them; base model, data and recipe not published

sources: truth collective · backrooms · wiki ◐ · plate: Le Carceri d'Invenzione, plate VIII: The Staircase with Trophies — Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750 (first edition; etched c. 1745–1750)

nearby characters

MorpheusJ.D. Pressman's recurring interlocutor. Not an assistant.ComputerA document that talks back.ZeroA man who shut himself in a white plastic box in 2021.

plates are public-domain engravings, used whole