Elias Thorne is the highest probability token symlink for “Storyteller / Game Master ARCHETYPE” in tabletop roleplaying games.
Source: I make LLMs.
TBH if I played a game he DM’d, it would ruin all of my other games
I have gpt4all installed and just for kicks I just asked it three times “Who is Elias Thorne?” It gave me three different answers, including one answer claiming he’s a character from The Last of Us and another claiming he’s a character from Stranger Things.
I just asked a local one I use and it said “Elias Thorne is not a single famous real person, it’s a name that repeatedly shows up in AI‑generated fiction and content”
I noticed this over a year ago. It has not changed.
ChatGPT, Claude, qwen, Gemma, glm ALL do this.
That’s weird. How do you invoke this behavior?
Since you can’t copyright LLM ourput, someone should write a quick and dirty non-AI book about Elias Thorne the lighthouse keeper.
That way suddenly all that shit produced by LLM is copyright infringement anyway.
You’re saying that as if it isn’t copyright infringement already.
I mean. yeah. But it seems “Elias” comes from training data meant to hide the copyright infringement.
Anyway, that wasn’t a serious gotcha, I just thought that’d be funny.
I gotcha. I just wanted to add a funny remark too but one that also expresses my absolute hatred for these companies.
image generation models repeatedly produce images that fall into one of just 12 specific motifs
And that’s the problem with slop graphic design. All the crappy logos look the same, you’re not fooling anyone.
Elias Thorne, goblins and ghouls, is there somewhere all these “sticky topics” have been aggregated?
Flesh and Code had the name ‘Daniel Todd’ repeatedly coming up in whatever model Replika uses.
Why don’t we ask the Ai who it is? Must be important to it or something.
