404 Media: Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper ‘Elias Thorne’. We Might Know Why. “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 […]

Most big #LLM seem to spit out stories about a guy called Elias Thorne when asked to generate a story. @404mediaco reports on this and the background in https://www.404media.co/elias-thorne-chatbots-llms-chatgpt-lighthouse-keeper-story/, based on the resarch in the preprint "Elias in the lighthouse, again": https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.26492.

A quick search in #Spotify: some #AI guys called Elias, alls producing music since 1-2 years, some of them suspiciously productive. One has more than 3k monthly listeners.

#Slopify #AISlop #EliasThorne