Ghost Couple: Correlated LLM Name Priors Haunting the Web and Academia
Explore the emergence of fictional names in AI-generated documents and their impact.
Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen, despite being fictional, have emerged as experts in various fields across numerous AI-generated documents. This phenomenon reveals that large language models create not just random names but correlated character ensembles that consistently appear across different generations. These patterns are specific to model families and indicate a significant issue in the integrity of academic publishing.
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