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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by pmarreck on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:15PM (#45118266)
> LLMs, by their very nature are probabilistic

I believe that if you can tweak the temperature input (OpenAI recently turned it off in their API, I noticed), an input of 0 should hypothetically result in the same output, given the same input.

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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by bdhcuidbebe on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:23PM (#45118340)
That only works if you decide to stick to that exact model for the rest of your life, obviously.
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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by oceanplexian on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @03:34PM (#45119633)
The point is he said "by its nature". A transformer based LLM when called with the same inputs/seed/etc is literally the textbook definition of a deterministic system.
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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by sarchertech on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:27PM (#45118374)
No one uses temperature 0 because the results are terrible.
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