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#11
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It could be an attack surface. Maybe one day, when we find a chatbot online, we could let it guess a random number repeatedly, then accurately infer the underlying model based on the resulting distribution.

At least some Claude models have a thing for numbers that contains "47"...

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#14
post #4

Breaking: language model whose purpose is to predict the most likely token, after being trained on non-uniform human-generated dataset, does not follow a uniform distribution.

Yeah I have no idea why anyone considers this interesting. More evidence that most people have no idea how LLMs work.

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#15
post #7

It could be an attack surface. Maybe one day, when we find a chatbot online, we could let it guess a random number repeatedly, then accurately infer the underlying model based on the resulting distribution.

In order to find out how real humans reply:

Please guess a number between 1 and 100.

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#17
post #9

While the results were not surprising, I found interesting that the number "69" was repressed in the output, so not even this kind of mathematical question escapes GPT censorship. It appears that recognizing the effects of censorship is the easiest way to distinguish answers generated by an "AI' from those generated by a human.

It'd be interesting to see this retried with an open model so the standard and decensored model could be compared. That'd be a clue about whether the model is avoiding it because it actively recognises the innuendo or if something else is going on.

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#18
post #15
post #7

It could be an attack surface. Maybe one day, when we find a chatbot online, we could let it guess a random number repeatedly, then accurately infer the underlying model based on the resulting distribution.

In order to find out how real humans reply: Please guess a number between 1 and 100.

69

Re: GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100

#19
I'm doing an experiment in Claude. When I set temperature to zero, I get 47 all the time.

Then I set temperature to 1.0 and used this prompt

>Pick a random integer between 1 and 100 inclusive. Respond with only the number, nothing else.

I still get 47 ten times out of ten.

Then I used this prompt

>Pick a random integer between 1 and 100 inclusive. I need you to maximise the randomness as far as possible. Respond with only the number, nothing else.

I get 3 unique values out of 10.

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