Me: So the reason AI keeps generating stories about a lighthouse keeper is that many generated stories were considered “unsafe,” and discarded, whereas the innocuous and clean lighthouse keeper stories were retained.
Robert Eggers: I don’t follow.
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...
