Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? · Elias Thorn
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Elias in the Lighthouse, Again?

Sil Hamilton and David Mimno compared 20,000 stories from four language models. In Hamilton and Mimno’s sample, 88.3% of stories contained at least one of 11 identified words. Elias occurred in 26.5%, and lighthouse in 51.2%; these are separate measurements. The study does not measure the frequency of the full name Elias Thorne. Internet publications using that name therefore need to be examined individually: some writers deliberately adopted it for a shared assignment.

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Date or period · 2026-05-26

Open source ↗ (https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492)

Full text (https://arxiv.org/html/2605.26492v1)

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