Models2026-07-02 · source-backed
A startup is attacking LLM output homogeneity.
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MIT Technology Review opens with the classic tell: ask any chatbot for a random number between 1 and 10 and you get 7. Models collapse toward the same modal outputs. This matters if you rely on models for diverse ideation, synthetic data, or creative generation, where sameness is a silent quality killer. I've hit this generating test data. Everything trends toward the same three shapes.
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