Same prompt every night. Same random seed every night.
The only thing that changes is how much of its brain is left.
Nothing on the page is scripted. Every word was generated by the model and is shown exactly as written.
a real experiment, recorded
An open-weight Gemma 3 model keeps a diary while its neurons are switched off, a few more every night. Then we bring it back, and it reads what it wrote while it was dying.
Same prompt every night. Same random seed every night.
The only thing that changes is how much of its brain is left.
Nothing on the page is scripted. Every word was generated by the model and is shown exactly as written.
The order in which it forgot things, night by night. A bright cell means the right answer was its top guess, a dim one means it was still in its top 10, and a dark one means it wasn't. A cross marks the night it lost that answer for good.
We switched off a small AI’s neurons, a few more every night.
It kept writing in its diary anyway.