Why AI almost always picks 7 when asked for a 'random' number from 1-10
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-08
Explaining a classic quirk: ask an AI to pick a random number from 1 to 10 and it will likely answer 7 or stay within a common band. The reason is training data — humans asked to be 'random' overwhelmingly pick 7, so models learn and reproduce that skewed distribution.
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