Scott Rosenberg on Mythryl: “LLMs from all the big AI cos keep telling tales about a lighthouse…”

LLMs from all the big AI cos keep telling tales about a lighthouse keeper "Elias Thorne." Great story from @404media.co @samleecole.bsky.social based on fascinating paper excavating the likely logic. Shared training data and methods lead to shared fixations. www.404media.co/elias-thorne...

404media.coChatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know WhyLLMs 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 bo...

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