Damus
myrmepropagandist · 23w
Had a lot of fun with my stats students today. I gave them two data sets. One from a random number generator, the other was one I made up that was not random, but designed to look random. They were ab...
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There is something very creepy about the way LLMs willy cheerfully give lists of "random" numbers. But they aren't random in frequency, and as my students pointed out "it's probably from some webpage about how to generate random numbers"

But even then, why is the frequency so unnaturally regular? It's that an artifact from mixing lists of real random numbers together?
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myrmepropagandist · 23w
The LLM is like a little box of computer horrors that we peer into from time to time. I'm sorry but the whole interface is just so silly. You ask for random numbers with sentences and it pretends to give them to you? What are we doooooing?
Max L · 23w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj and how about those "random" passwords generated by AI 😬 https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/116099905667994600 * over and over, again. #PasswordReuse #VibeSlop