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

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...

> 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?

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

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