This is a wild story about a sort of AI-generated creepypasta, extracted from an unsafe data set and now served by different AI models as a universal protagonist or side character.
You can bet execs at a movie studio are meeting today to discuss a potential Elias Thorne film.
Jonathan Jarry
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon books. Researchers are trying to discover why.
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon books....