Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why
Culture Index
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Relevance
3/25
Freshness
19/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
15/15
Depth
3/15
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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 books. Researchers are trying to discover why.
