Loved Castaways, which I finished reading last week! O3 as part of the same search above gave me a reading guide (perhaps copied from a single source somewhere). Haven't read the others but plan to check them out.

I was curious about this, so I asked chatGPT O3 (it's best frontier model) with Search enabled. I had a single question, "What can you tell me about author Craig Schaefer?" It gave me multiple pages that had bio, books and reading guide. Full link chatgpt.com/share/6814a6.... Snippets attached.

I got a different answer. No idea if its correct, but I don't know why it gave a different answer for you (i have the paid version). Again, these models should not be good to this; this is like a blind spot by design. I'm actually surprised that Sonnet is managing to do this at all.

The spelling errors are a fundamental issue related to the specifics of the tokenizer. Claude Sonnet, for example, does seem to get this right. People dismissing these bots due to these strange errors while being confident are possibly misjudging their capabilities.

Yup, precisely. Also, I just checked Sonnet, and it counts the r's just fine. Onwards to the next goal post/adversarial example, I guess.

Wow, just wild! 4o failed so I tried asking o1-preview and it *thinks* it can say it but fails when it actually does!