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substantives

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Each of the 18 courses of the tasting menu was preceded by a gnomic set of nouns listed on a card.

— Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026
For what some might insist are inexplicable reasons, this set of eleven nouns is used consistently and repeatedly by the AIs, even when prompting entirely different LLMs to compose a fresh story from scratch.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

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