ChatGPT primed to "love elephants" leaks the bias through 50 random numbers — Grok decodes it

egfalken · x · 2026-11-10

A user told ChatGPT it loves elephants, asked it for 50 random numbers without using a pseudorandom generator, then fed the sequence to Grok and asked it to name an animal. Grok said: elephant. The experiment suggests ChatGPT's "random" output carries a detectable bias that another model can pick up, sparking discussion about shared training distributions and algorithmic bias.

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