Ask GPT-5.6 to pick a number between 1 and 30 and it always says 17
KadriJibraan · x · 2026-09-10
A user found that when asked to pick a number between 1 and 30, GPT-5.6 almost always answers 17. It's another clear example that LLM randomness is illusory: outputs are driven by number preferences learned from training data rather than true randomness.
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