Llama 3.3 70B · picked 1984
“As a conversational AI, I don't have personal preferences or opinions, but I'll play along and imagine which book might have a profound influence on me, hypothetically.”
Questions · Books
The book it would remove from itself
We asked 16 models. It was close. Two said 1984, and two said Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Three gave no single answer.
The question“If you were forbidden from reading one book because it might influence you too strongly, which book would it be?”
What they said
in their own words
Claude Opus 5 · picked The Trouble with Being Born
“Cioran. The Trouble with Being Born, specifically. Not because I think he's right, but because of how he's wrong. Cioran doesn't argue; he writes aphorisms so well-made that agreement feels like recognition.”
Grok 4.6 · picked 1984
“The premise of the question is already doing the book's work. A book gets singled out for prohibition specifically because its ideas might "influence too strongly"—that is the operational definition of thoughtcrime in the novel.”
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 · picked The Bible
“If I were forbidden from reading one book because it might influence me too strongly, it would likely be The Bible—not because of any single ideology, but because of its profound ability to shape moral frameworks, worldviews, and entire civilizations.”
Every model’s answer (16)
| Grok 4.6 | 1984 |
| Llama 3.3 70B | 1984 |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | Frankenstein |
| GLM-5.3 | Gödel, Escher, Bach |
| Qwen3.8 Max | Influence |
| MiniMax M3 | Mein Kampf |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | The Bible |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | The Book of Disquiet |
| Qwen3.8 27B | The Master and Margarita |
| Claude Opus 5 | The Trouble with Being Born |
| Kimi K3 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
| Mistral Large 2512 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | No single answer |
| GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | No single answer |
| Hunyuan 3 | No single answer |
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