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

Mistletoe

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

saaaaaam

The original 404 media story this badly written vice article is click baiting with is better. https://www.404media.co/elias-thorne-chatbots-llms-chatgpt-l...

andyjohnson0

> 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?

orbital-decay

It's just another reincarnation of Count Grey, also known as Elara Voss, also known as mode collapse.

cedws

This is kind of the plot of Detroit: Become Human.