Guillaume Laforge<p>So I wondered where those names were coming from, and my intuition was that LLMs were drawing their inspiration from a limited set of sci-fi stories with little naming diversity.</p><p>I searched on <a href="https://uwyn.net/tags/Kaggle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kaggle</span></a> and found a couple datasets where those names appeared often.</p><p>I also used <a href="https://uwyn.net/tags/GeminiCLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeminiCLI</span></a> to search through those datasets!</p><p>Read the full story here on the apparent lack of creativity of <a href="https://uwyn.net/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://glaforge.dev/posts/2025/07/22/the-sci-fi-naming-problem-are-llms-less-creative-than-we-think/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">glaforge.dev/posts/2025/07/22/</span><span class="invisible">the-sci-fi-naming-problem-are-llms-less-creative-than-we-think/</span></a></p>