There’s a goofily small number of names that are kinda baked into the LLM training data that they’ve become tells on their own. It’s worth looking up.
But on the flip side, I might need to change one of my oldest original character’s name just because “Arris” crops up as LLM fantasy male name.
This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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 bo...
