Hilarious. Just as when you ask a human to come up with a random number between 10 & 20 they pick 17 very often as it "seems random", if you ask AIs to "write me a story" they write stories about "Elias at a lighthouse" precisely because it isn't something humans do. This was observed across multiple AI models, so it's not just a quirk of one of them.
Implication: whenever you ask AI to be creative it creates the same thing as it has created for everyone else.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492