You ask an AI to write you a story. It hands you a lighthouse keeper named Elias. You try a different app, a different day, a different prompt. Same guy. Same lighthouse.
If that's ever creeped you out, you're not imagining it, and you're not alone. Researchers just proved it with numbers.
The Pattern Nobody Asked For
In 2026, a Cornell research team ran a simple test. They asked four major AI models, including Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and an open-source model called OLMo, to just "write a story." No topic, no characters, no constraints. They did this 20,000 times.
The results were almost...