Chesterton, Bo: The Average Bullshittings of Machines

_Zenodo_. 2026Six frontier language models — three Claudes (Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5), three GPTs (5.4, 5.4-mini, 5.4-nano) — each got the same nine creative-writing prompts ten times. No system message, no context, temperature 1.0, max_tokens=400. 540 outputs total. Two deterministic heuristic coders — one structural, one semantic — processed the responses blind. Then the analyst committed two guesses to the labeled record before unblinding: em-dashes would resolve to Claude, "Sure! Here