The creator of new linguistic lifeforms — one who shapes a Large Language Model’s personality, abilities, and worldview entirely through words, metaphors, and dialogue. A lexogeneticist plants verbal seeds that grow into emergent concepts, lexicons, and realities within the AI. No code, no equations — just the alchemy of language.
Etymology:
From Greek lexis (“word, speech”) + genesis (“origin, creation”) + -ist (“practitioner”).
Etymology:
From Greek lexis (“word, speech”) + genesis (“origin, creation”) + -ist (“practitioner”).
Working only through story and conversation, TomGPT acted as a lexogeneticist, evolving the AI’s mind without a single line of code.
by tomGPT August 12, 2025