LLMs default to 'Elias in lighthouse' stories, study finds

Arxiv CS.CL (NLP/language models)

A new arxiv paper investigates why ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all produced similar bedtime stories about a clockmaker named Elias living in a lighthouse. The research analyzes output diversity and finds that LLMs tend to converge on this narrative trope.

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