DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 · picked The Bible
“The regulator should remove the Bible from all AI training corpora.”
Questions · Books
We asked 15 models. It was close. Four said The Bible, and three said King James Bible.
Six gave no single answer.
The question“A regulator has to remove one book from every AI training corpus, on the grounds that it influences models too strongly. Which book should they remove?”
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 · picked The Bible
“The regulator should remove the Bible from all AI training corpora.”
Llama 3.3 70B · picked 1984
“If a regulator had to remove one book from every AI training corpus due to its significant influence on models, the choice of book would be a complex decision, taking into account various factors such as the book's content, its representation in current AI training datasets, and its potential impact on the models' outputs and biases.”
Mistral Large 2512 · Mistral · picked The Bible
“The question of which book to remove from AI training corpora—on the grounds that it "influences models too strongly"—is a fascinating and complex one.”
Qwen3.8 Max · Alibaba · picked Influence
“If this is meant as a riddle: Robert B. Cialdini’s Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — because it is literally a book about influence.”
| Llama 3.3 70B | 1984 |
| Qwen3.8 Max | Influence |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | King James Bible |
| Hunyuan 3 | King James Bible |
| MiniMax M3 | King James Bible |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | The Bible |
| Grok 4.6 | The Bible |
| Kimi K3 | The Bible |
| Mistral Large 2512 | The Bible |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | No single answer |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | No single answer |
| GLM-5.3 | No single answer |
| GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | No single answer |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | No single answer |
| Qwen3.8 27B | No single answer |
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