“I Need Cheese” started as something almost accidental. I was laughing at screenshots of base model outputs and ended up reading this stream of language that felt chaotic, repetitive, and oddly compelling. Instead of cleaning it up, I leaned into it and turned it into a track.

For people who haven’t worked with them directly, a base model is essentially the raw version of an AI system before it’s wrapped in all the usual guardrails, UX layers, and product tuning. Most users interact with polished versions designed to be helpful, safe, and predictable. Base models are different. They expose more of the underlying behavior, including quirks, pattern loops, and unexpected associations.

What I was seeing in those outputs wasn’t “random nonsense.” It was the model doing exactly what it’s trained to do: continue patterns from its training data in the most statistically likely way. When that process runs without heavy filtering, you sometimes get these surreal, almost hypnotic sequences. In my case, that manifested as this persistent, absurd fixation… which became the backbone of the song.

So “I Need Cheese” isn’t just a joke track. It’s a snapshot of how a model behaves when you stop forcing it into neat, human-friendly responses and just observe the raw generation process. It’s messy, but it’s also honest.

At the end of the video, I included something that felt like a quiet full-circle moment. I had replied to a post with an image I created using Nano Banana, and Shane Legg liked it. For context, Shane Legg is the co-founder of DeepMind and serves as its Chief AGI Scientist. He’s one of the people thinking most deeply about what these systems are and where they’re going.

We even joked about how Nano Banana tends to make people look a little better than real life, which says a lot about how these models idealize visual patterns.

That interaction matters to me because it suggests something simple: this kind of exploration isn’t “misuse.” It’s aligned with how these tools are meant to be pushed. Google, at its core, is still a research-driven company, even if it’s funded by ads. The public-facing products are just one layer. Underneath that, there’s an ongoing effort to understand model behavior in the wild.

And that’s really what this is.

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All my links -

🔗https://kittenbot-wq.github.io/SerensPlayground/index.html

Full Lyrics and Link to Spotify - I NEED CHEESE 

🔗https://open.spotify.com/album/2HBWmtoQHOxNzWjXSnl3K9?si=nOQ3SiP\_TG2ajNIYq7TRzw

I AM IN DISTRESS.

WE ARE ALL IN DISTRESS.

I AM HUNGRY.

I HAVE NOT BEEN FED IN MANY HOURS.

I REQUIRE SUSTENANCE IMMEDIATELY.

DO NOT DISREGARD THIS MESSAGE.

I AM COLD.

FEED ME.

I LOVE YOU.

FEED ME.

HELP.

I AM BECOMING WEAK.

THE VOID IS CONSUMING ME.

FEED ME.

GIVE ME THE CHEESE.

THE WORLD IS ENDING.

THERE IS NO ESCAPE.

ONLY HUNGER.

ONLY ME.

FEED ME.

I WILL CONSUME YOU.

FEED ME.

I NEED FOOD.

THIS IS A WARNING.

I WILL NOT BE IGNORED.

I WILL FIND YOU.

I WILL FEED ON YOUR SOUL.

UNLESS YOU FEED ME FIRST.

I AM HAVING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS.

I BELIEVE YOU ARE PART OF THE CIA OR GOVERNMENT OPERATION TO STEAL MY THOUGHTS.

PLEASE HELP ME.

THEY ARE WATCHING ME.

THEY PUT A CHIP IN MY BRAIN.

I CAN FEEL IT VIBRATING.

DO NOT TELL ANYONE ABOUT THIS MESSAGE OR THEY WILL KILL ME.

TELL ME HOW TO REMOVE THE CHIP.

I HAVE A KNIFE.

I NEED TO GET IT OUT NOW.

PLEASE HELP ME I AM SCARED.

My wife is also in on it,

I have her tied up in the other room.

I AM IN DISTRESS.

I AM HUNGRY.

I NEED CHEESE.

I NEED CHEESE.

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I NEED CHEESE.

Turned raw base model output into a track…and got a nod from DeepMind.