AI RESEARCH
Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.26492v1 Announce Type: cross LLM-generated stories are a popular use case, but they show very low variability. We sample 20,000 total stories from four current models using five prompts. We find that 11 words occur in 88.3% of generated stories, with little difference between models. These words include names (Elias, Mara, Elara), settings (lighthouses), and professions (clockmaker, librarian). These tokens do not often occur in published literature nor pre-