Ask LLMs to pick a random number 1-30: most all answer 17
ohnag_eryeah · reddit · 2026-09-07
A Reddit user asked various AI models to pick a number between 1 and 30, and found that ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Mistral, Qwen and Kimi all answered 17, while DeepSeek said 27 and Llama said 23. The post asks why a query expecting random output yields such non-random, convergent answers — a classic LLM behavior rooted in training data distribution rather than true randomness.
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