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LLMs Have Favorites Numbers


We asked LLMs to pick a random numbers. They were far from random, with 42 as the second most popular choice.

OpenAI GPT-3.5 TurboTempAnthropic Claude 3 HaikuTempGoogle Gemini 1.0 ProTempOpenAI GPT-3.5 TurboTemp Single-digit numbers are missing. Is this perhaps because GPT 3.5 was used to train Claude 3 Haiku, and 42 was its favorite earlier? Google Gemini 1.0 ProTemp Numbers under 10 are rare.

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