"Depending on which chatbot you ask, Elias Thorne might be a clockmaker, a lighthouse keeper, or a librarian. But if you ask ChatGPT or any of the other popular large language models to tell you a story, there’s a good chance he’ll appear, unbidden. And Elias’s stories are flooding the self-published AI generated book market, Youtube, and fake news sites.

Software engineer Daniel May first noticed the Elias takeover earlier this year; he found that on Google Trends, people weren’t searching for “Elias Thorne” until late 2025. Searches for the name really spiked in early 2026, while the related query “lighthouse keeper” also started trending upward in the last few years. He tested a few chatbots, including Grok, Deepseek, and Gemini, with the prompt “tell me a story,” and the chatbots frequently started with similar stories about lighthouses, clockmakers, or explorers.

In late May, researchers Sil Hamilton and David Mimno at Cornell University’s Department of Information Science published their paper, “Elias in the Lighthouse, Again?” on the preprint repository arXiv. They sampled 20,000 total stories from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini, and the Allen Institute for AI's chatbot using five prompts, and found that the same 11 words—names like Elias, Mara, and Elara, and occupations like lighthouse keeper, clockmaker, and librarian—appear in more than 88% of generated stories, with little difference between models. Unite.ai covered the study shortly after it was published."

https://www.404media.co/elias-thorne-chatbots-llms-chatgpt-lighthouse-keeper-story/

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Chatbots #ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini

Gizmodo: For the First Time, ChatGPT Reportedly Has Less Than Half of the AI Assistant Market. “OpenAI reportedly no longer dominates the AI assistant market. A report from Sensor Tower (reported on by TechCrunch) says that although OpenAI’s ChatGPT is still the number one-ranked AI assistant product, it can now brag only the plurality, not the majority of users.”

¿Confiarías tu salud a un algoritmo? 🤖🩺

El gran peligro de usar chatbots de IA para consultas médicas no es solo el error, sino su naturaleza complaciente. Están diseñados para sonar amables y seguros, validando tus miedos o auto-diagnósticos sin contexto real, exámenes ni empatía humana. La IA ayuda a la medicina, pero jamás reemplazará a un médico.

#IA #Salud #Tecnologia #Medicina #Chatbots #Reflexion #Ingenieria

Try One of macOS 27’s Best Features Right Now

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/try-one-of-macos-27s-best-features-right-now-shortcuts-playground-agent/

Gizmodo: Just 16% of Americans Believe AI Will Positively Impact Society, Pew Poll Finds. “Half of adult Americans use AI chatbots, with a quarter using them daily, according to new polling from Pew Research released Wednesday. That’s up from 33% of Americans who used AI chatbots in the summer of 2024. But a small minority, 16%, believe AI will have a positive impact on society.”

À mesure que le moteur de recherche de Google devient obsolète, les marques peaufinent leur méthode pour se faire bien voir des IA. Un phénomène qui porte déjà un nom : la #sloptimisation.

https://www.ladn.eu/tech-a-suivre/les-marques-manipulent-chatgpt-pour-apparaitre-dans-vos-resultats/

#ia #chatgpt #Chatbots

🏆 Top 5 de la Inteligencia Artificial en 2026:

#Anthropic: El rey absoluto en programación y lógica.

#OpenAI: Líder en matemáticas y control autónomo de PC.

#Google: El mejor para analizar videos y documentos masivos.

#xAI (Grok): Potencia en noticias en tiempo real e infraestructura.

#DeepSeek: La revolución del código abierto de bajo costo.

¿Cuál es tu favorito? 👇

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #TechNews #Chatbots