AI top ten: guitarists · greatest

One recorded answer per model version for this exact prompt. The chart counts the first choice in 3 interpretable ranked answers, from 4 completed replies. Unordered replies are not counted as first choices; unresolved names remain labeled. Model versions and fine-tunes are not independent companies.

These tests describe generated answers, not human tastes. The greatest and imagined-listening questions stay separate. Lower positions in a single list are not a stable overall ranking. Repeated observations of one model do not count as additional model versions.

Collected 10 September 2026. Fresh conversations; provider-default temperature, no tools. Requested model IDs are shown above.

Output limit: 1500 tokens. Reasoning setting: {'effort': 'low'}. System instruction: None supplied.