"The AIs love to create characters named Elara,"
"You'll even find math workbooks about Elara's adventures in geometry,"
"The AIs are trained on human-generated content, and then they're trained to please us,"
"They try their hardest to give us exactly what we want."
Artificial intelligence frequently generates the name Elara across genres, from science fiction and fantasy to everyday contexts like math workbooks. Laura Wattenberg designated Elara as the 2025 Name of the Year after noticing its repeated appearance in AI outputs. Users on Reddit report the name recurring across models such as GPT-4, Mistral and LLaMA, sometimes paired with the surname Vex. An AI researcher traced recurrence to associations in model training data, including references like World of Warcraft, while others attribute the phenomenon to models imitating appealing, neutral-sounding names trained to satisfy human prompts.
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