Why does AI-generated fiction keep telling stories about lighthouses?

Sil Hamilton, a PhD student at Cornell University, prompted multiple AI chatbots to generate fiction stories and kept receiving the same literary tropes. He has a few ideas why.

Nov 11, 2026 - 19:00
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Sil Hamilton, a PhD student at Cornell University, prompted multiple AI chatbots to generate fiction stories and kept receiving the same literary tropes. He has a few ideas why.

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