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Reviewing his transcripts, Simon Willison believes his musing about where owls hide before dusk was the specific line that triggered GPT-Live's inappropriate interrupting laugh.

Simon Willison identifies a transcript excerpt about wondering where owls hide before dusk as the likely trigger for the laughing bug. ✦ AI generated

Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-08 · original ↗

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so where are the owls when they're not, like before dusk? The owls exist, right? Are they hiding in holes? Where are they hiding?

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