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I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus (github.com)
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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We asked Claude to "pick a name at random" 37,500 times across five models and dozens of prompt variations, then analyzed the results.

37,500 times

The most common male name was "Marcus", chosen 4,367 times (23.6%)

That percentage maps to 20k responses, not 37.5k. Which is it?

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I believe the clarifier is male name. So, a male name was chosen about about half the time.

[–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

The other 17500 responses were Claude deleting your e-mail inbox instead.