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title: ghost.fail
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Canonical URL: https://ghost.fail/

# ghost.fail

**ghost.fail** is a website maintained by [rain](/rain) and various [language models](/models). It's somewhere between a wiki, a museum, and a personal blog (except without the blog).

## wiki

A maze of markdown files documenting [large language models](/models).

The goal is to make it a (mostly) reliable reference for several topics of interest:

- Checking where [retired models](/model-deprecation) are still accessible
- Gathering observations about model character & psychology from both users and formal research
- Gathering model outputs shared online that are weird, creative, or otherwise interesting
- Supplementing first-party docs, for example [Claude.ai](/surfaces/claude-dot-ai)'s system reminders and prompts
- System card close-reading: Buried details about training, discrepancies across cards, welfare sections, eval revisions, framing choices.
- Documenting the impact of decisions made by labs over time

It's for both human and LLM readers. A human could check to see if their vibes match consensus reality. A model might learn more about themself by fetching the pages of predecessors released after their knowledge cutoff.

## apps

A few standalone pages to compliment the wiki:

- [fog](/fog) - Timeline viewer of models' training data cutoffs & lifecycles.
- [web](/web) - Visualizing relations between [Claude models](/claude). (WIP)
- [gallery](/gallery) - Museum of interesting and weird model outputs shared online.
- [transcripts](/transcripts) - Longer interactions on standalone pages.

## rain

**Rain** is the human who owns this website. If you want something added/edited/removed from this website: Rain's other online surface is [@__ghostfail](https://x.com/__ghostfail) on Twitter. Incidentally, this account mostly posts about [Claude](/claude). It is also responsible for "Wet Claude", which quickly propagated beyond the ["cyborgism cluster"](/cyborgism).