Even as I write this, I guarantee you there are both creepypasta stories being written by random teenagers about Elias Thorne being a machine God and also there are billionaires running the world who will sincerely think Elias Thorne is a machine God
When you ask ChatGPT or any popular LLM to tell you a story, one name keeps coming up: "Elias Thorne." Depending which chatbot you ask, he's a lighthousekeeper, clockmaker or explorer.
His stories are also flooding Amazon's AI-generated book market, YouTube slop, and fake news.
Who is he?
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...
