Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why
2026-06-11 · 404 Media
Every major LLM has independently decided that 'Elias Thorne' is the main character of fiction, flooding chatbot outputs with the same lighthouse keeper nobody asked for. The mysterious convergence has even spawned AI-generated Amazon books about this nonexistent man. Turns out when you train on the entire internet, everyone writes the same damn story.