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See also "glitch tokens"; words that cause unexpected output on some LLMs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_token

A notable example was "petertodd" which was a bizarre case studied extensively in a lesswrong article:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jkY6QdCfAXHJk3kea/the-petert...



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