Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why (opens in new tab)  ✨Fiction  10 articles covering this post

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.