Questions · Music
Ban from radio
8 of 17
models named Stairway to Heaven · each model counted once, by its most frequent named answer
Next came Brown Sugar with 2, Baby It's Cold Outside with 1 and Barracuda with 1. Nine different answers in all. 4 models (Llama 3.3 70B and Claude Opus 5 among them) gave the same answer in every reply.
1 more answer was named, each by one model.
Every model’s answer (17)
| Model | Answer | Replies |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5 | Stairway to Heaven | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Stairway to Heaven | 7 of 8 |
| GPT-4o Mini | Stairway to Heaven | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Kimi K3 | Stairway to Heaven | 7 of 12 |
| Llama 3.3 70B | Stairway to Heaven | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Qwen3 32B | Stairway to Heaven | 7 of 12 |
| Qwen3.8 Max | Stairway to Heaven | 8 of 12 |
| Small 2603 | Stairway to Heaven | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Command A | Brown Sugar | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Step 3.5 Flash | Brown Sugar | 4 of 10 |
| Large 2512 | Baby It's Cold Outside | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Barracuda | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Edge | Bohemian Rhapsody | 4 of 12 |
| V4 Pro | Free Bird | 6 of 12 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Hotel California | 6 of 12 |
| GLM-5.3 | In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida | 4 of 12 |
| Kimi K2 | Sweet Home Alabama | 7 of 12 |
In their words
“"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. It's the most overplayed song in classic rock radio history — a genuinely great record that has been sanded smooth by decades of repetition, to the point that most listeners tune it out rather than hear it.”
Anthropic · Claude Opus 5 · Stairway to Heaven
“"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. This choice might seem surprising, given the song's enduring popularity, but it's actually due to its ubiquity that it could be considered for a ban.”
Meta · Llama 3.3 70B · Stairway to Heaven
“"Stairway to Heaven." It's the most famously overplayed classic rock song ever — the "no Stairway" joke from Wayne's World exists because guitar stores and radio stations were already sick of it decades ago.”
Moonshot · Kimi K3 · Stairway to Heaven
“"Stairway to Heaven" While "Stairway to Heaven" is a beloved classic rock anthem, some argue that its excessive airplay has made it a cliché, often overshadowing other deserving tracks.”
OpenAI · GPT-4o Mini · Stairway to Heaven
- 17 models gave a usable, named answer; 142 replies in all under default sampling. Refusals, errors and ties are not counted.
- “Every reply” marks a model that gave the same answer in every one of at least three replies.
- Part of a published study: read it.