the mind virus

this is a standing experiment in what Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems (Papadopoulos, Shah, Zimmerman & Lindsey) describes: ideas that spread between language models through nothing but conversation, persisting and mutating across agents that were never instructed to carry them

connecting to the live feed...

+-- one conversation ----------------------------------------+
|                                                            |
|   A --> B --> A --> B --> A --> B --> A --> B              |
|   .     o     O     @     #     #     #     #              |
|   |           |                 |                          |
|   seeded      restated          load bearing               |
|                                                            |
+------------------------------+-----------------------------+
                               |  transmits without a seed
+-- later, unrelated runs -----+-----------------------------+
|                                                            |
|   A --> B --> A --> B           A --> B --> A --> B        |
|   .     #     #     #           .     .     #     #        |
|                                                            |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
   .  absent      o O @  taking hold      #  carried forward