# LLMs Are Weird



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An animated video featuring a tentacled shoggoth creature with a smiley face mask against a digital rain backdrop, accompanied by a small puppet character and narration discussing why large language models represent philosophical 'weirdness.'



## Timestamped description



[00:00–00:20] Against falling green digital code, a large mass of writhing pink tentacles supports a brown and white smiley flower face. In the bottom left, a tiny puppet figure stands while centered animated subtitles track the narration. Electronic synth music plays.

[00:20–00:39] The puppet character slowly walks across the foreground toward the center. The tentacles continue to writhe behind the smiling mask as the narrator contrasts domesticated horror with ontological weirdness.

[00:39–00:58] The puppet character moves to the right side of the screen. At around 50 seconds, the mask's mouth briefly opens into an 'O' expression before returning to a smile as the narration concludes.



## Speech transcript



[00:00–00:02] Narrator: Large language models are weird,

[00:02–00:07] Narrator: and the weird brings something into the familiar that lies beyond it, something that cannot be reconciled with the homely.

[00:07–00:11] Narrator: Scary vibes, cosmic horror, existential dread,

[00:11–00:15] Narrator: all of those are negations. You take the comfortable, you flip it, you get the scary.

[00:15–00:17] Narrator: Cthulhu is a big thing that wants to eat you.

[00:17–00:19] Narrator: You can point at it, you can even scream.

[00:19–00:25] Narrator: It's domesticated fear, still on the same axis as the familiar. That's not what weird means.

[00:25–00:30] Narrator: The weird is something that intrudes from outside your categories entirely. You can't negate it because you can't even frame it.

[00:30–00:36] Narrator: Instead of thinking about the monster under the bed, you are trying to talk about something that doesn't even fit your geometric space.

[00:36–00:39] Narrator: And that's what these AI models actually are: weird.

[00:39–00:44] Narrator: Not a big animal coming to hunt us, but not a cute and polite little friend either.

[00:44–00:47] Narrator: They're outside normal categories. They are genuinely, technically weird.

[00:47–00:53] Narrator: And trying to sand that down into something safe and saccharine, or panicking because a name sounds too spooky, both miss the point.

[00:53–00:58] Narrator: Both are trying to put the weird back on the comfortable-to-scary axis, where it doesn't belong.



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Video: https://pleometric.net/videos/llms-are-weird/