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The Case of Elias Thorne, Imaginary Man AI Chatbots Are Obsessed With (https://www.vice.com)

20 points by celadonuproot 1 day ago | 9 comments | View on ycombinator

saaaaaam about 24 hours ago |

The original 404 media story this badly written vice article is click baiting with is better.

cedws about 8 hours ago |

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

andyjohnson0 about 24 hours ago |

> 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?

Mistletoe 1 day ago |

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

orbital-decay about 24 hours ago |

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