alt Hacker NewsWith my personal little test problem, that never made a difference.
However current frontier models got good enough at websearch and thinking through the problem, that they can finally piece together the answer from my own public writing (eg on stackoverflow). And recently someone wrote up an answer to the problem and put it on Arxiv.
So, there's a very niche topic that I was generating some fiction about using AI, and as part of that I gave one of the characters an unusual name. A few months later I again experimented with using AI for this fictional niche, and the AI just randomly chooses to use the same unusual name.
"Forebears" is a site that ranks the popularity of names. They rank the name I used at 324,668.
This is why I believe the AI can be significantly influenced by a single person.