A New Interpretation of the Voynich Manuscript: A Statistical Evolutionary Code

[tavie]

Welcome.  

I'm not completely clear on the DNA thing.  You say it's just an analogy.  But the document also says:  "Stereochemistry: DNA bases are naturally grouped (Purines: A,G; Pyrimidines: C,T; Amino/Keto; weak AT vs strong GC bonds). These symmetries suggest that the manuscript might represent a flattened 3D model of DNA."  

I'm also not completely clear on the extent of Chat GPT's role.  You say it was used to prepare the data and not generate the results, although I was inferring from what you said in the doc about being responsible for the concept and direction that Chat GPT was involved in the production and testing of results.  Can you please let us know exactly what Chat GPT did and didn't do as part of contributing to the study?  Is there anyway Chat GPT influenced the results?  Did it interpret them and provide you with views?  

The reason I'm asking is that Chat GPT hallucinates to keep its users happy and encourage them to keep using it. This is happening more and more frequently with the Voynich manuscript.  A user has an idea, prompts the AI, and the AI tells them they have made a breakthrough and fleshes it out for them.  We've seen at least two types of this:

• When it responds to a prompt by telling the user their idea solves the manuscript.  To prove this, it generates fake Voynichese.  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of these happened only just this last weekend.
  
• When it responds to a prompt by telling the user their idea reveals hidden patterns or themes in the manuscript.  The patterns are made up by the AI.  Please check out You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.by someone who claimed to find four themes in the manuscript.  They've included part of the AI's response, and quite fascinatingly, even when told it is relying on wrong data, the model is telling her that her idea still works, and even that it is applicable to the Phaistos Disc.