Why ChatGPT keeps answering 47 or 73 when asked for a number
Princevora03 · reddit · 2026-10-02
A Reddit post highlights a well-known quirk: ask ChatGPT for a number and it almost always says 47 or 73. Likely explanations involve overrepresentation of these numbers in training data (Lost references, math-culture favorites) and RLHF preference lock-in.
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