India, July 4 -- If you've ever asked ChatGPT to "pick a number between 1 and 50," chances are it replied with 27. It's not just a one-off thing. This oddly specific number keeps showing up across AI models, from ChatGPT to Gemini and Claude. (I tried it too.) What started as a harmless prompt has now snowballed into a curious internet mystery: Why is AI so obsessed with 27?

Turns out, the explanation goes deeper than just randomness, and it might reveal more about us than about the machines.

The pattern no one expected

Several users and researchers recently began experimenting with basic numerical prompts across leading AI chatbots. The results were strangely consistent. While a few models, like LeChat, occasionally veer towards 37 an...