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The Case of Elias Thorne, Imaginary Man AI Chatbots Are Obsessed With

13 pointsby 2h agovice.com
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56m agoHN ↗

I expected some deeper delving into the story but it just kind of rambles for a bit and ends, like an LLM wrote it.

11m agoHN ↗

But if you ask ChatGPT or any of the other popular large language models to tell you a story, there’s a good chance he’ll appear, unbidden.

Is this something that people do?