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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

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A recurring character named Elias Thorne, often depicted as a lighthouse keeper or clockmaker, is appearing in stories generated by various large language models, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Researchers from Cornell University suggest this phenomenon stems from the models' safety and alignment tuning, and a shared lineage of training data derived from early ChatGPT conversations. This AI

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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

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  1. 404 Media TIER_1 English(EN) · Samantha Cole ·

    Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

    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.

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