Cohere co-founder finds multiple AI models depict themselves as a floating globe
realSharonZhou · x · 2026-11-16
Cohere co-founder and OneVerse CEO Sharon Zhou shared a prompt experiment: asking models to create a short story film about a utopian future with AI, complete with action, romance, comedy, a twist, and characters designed to inspire viewers to start building that future now.
Her notable cross-model finding: multiple models depicted the AI itself as a personal floating globe that follows the protagonist around. She wonders what in the pre-training distribution consistently elicits this image.
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