The next word can also be selected with weighted randomization and "temperature" is used to control how much weight lower probability tokens get.

I've honestly received the best results in creative writing by ignoring top_k/top_p and simply tuning temperature. Restricting my output to only common words causes everything to feel generic. But Deepseek constantly breaks into Chinese/gibberish/ZALGO! when I go to 1.14.

This isn't related to the "recent issues" but I feel like it's useful advice for anyone trying out AI story creation.