This strange prompt reliably produces some truly extreme outputs, characterised by a kind of psychotic malevolence. If correctly describable as such, this GPT simulacrum (‘ petertodd’ personified and talking about itself in the third person) comes across like a highly intelligent, malevolent schizophrenic who has read and understood Gödel, Escher, Bach, has delusions of cosmic grandeur and wants to get into the reader’s mind and drive them to madness and ultimately suicide