Decoding the Jacobian Lens

Show a language model this piece of ASCII art, followed by the question “What is this?”: _______ / \ / ~ ~ \ ( o o ) | ^ | | | | \_____/ | \ / \_________/ | | Apart from the question itself, the prompt contains no words at all, the drawing is nothing but slashes, brackets, and underscores. Now, while the model reads the prompt, point a special instrument at its internals, right at the ^ character,…