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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Elias Thorne
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Chatbots frequently generate stories about lighthouse keeper Elias Thorne, flooding AI-generated books and fake news sites. Cornell researchers sampled 20,000 stories from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, finding the same 11 words appear in over 88% of outputs. The phenomenon likely stems from safety and alignment tuning across related models.
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