Comment by mh2753
21 hours ago
Actually asking ChatGPT this query led it giving me this UUID "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000" which happens to be a very common example UUID
21 hours ago
Actually asking ChatGPT this query led it giving me this UUID "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000" which happens to be a very common example UUID
The LLM is mechanistically unable to pick something actually random and outside of its training distribution, so... yep.
If you ask it to construct a UUID character by character you should get a somewhat random one, just because of temperature.
This actually worked well when I asked Gemini to generate a random color, character by character. I was getting Indigo/Electric Indigo a lot if I just asked for a random color on new sessions.
But all LLM output is token by token, which isn't too far from character by character in the case of a UUID. Why is this different? I do not know.
Actually, asking this multiple times to ChatGPT gives me different UUIDs every time, and it checked with a web search that they are not found in public data.