So apparently the name "Elias Thorne" got founder-effected via a short-story dataset used in most early training corpora, so any modern model instructed to make up a character name is more likely to return Elias than any other. Or, I guess, we could already be in the Matrix and he's the One
Nick Fox-Gieg
AI generated stories, aka the Elias Thorne literary universe www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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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...