The more generic your prompt, the more generic the response. It's a regression to the "mean" of the training data aka GIGO for AI.

It's like when you ask your average person off the street to draw a house - it'll almost always be square with a triangle roof, one door, and two windows.

In the pelican/bike example, it's probably a bit of a self-perpetuating snowball too. If the earliest examples were bike left-to-right, flat ground, etc. then they are also being scraped up in future LLMs.

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polyterative 3 hours ago | parent [-]

as a kid I did them like this. nobody told me to do that. are we all so similar?

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Gigachad 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It's just the simplest most recognizable form of a house. Like how a smiley face is so generic and simplistic but everyone will know what it represents. Just two dots and a line yet it's easily and unambiguously understood to represent a human face and a happy emotion.

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collabs 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I sincerely believe I've never had a single original thought™ in my whole life.

There is this scene in the HBO series Westworld where a "host" says some words in sequence which is shown on a display as she says it. Of course, even me thinking of this scene and connecting it to your comment was not original, someone else clearly had the same programming as me.

A medium blog post says

> Pair what with me?” — the moment Maeve (a humanoid android) uttered those words in Westworld (Season 1, Episode 6: “The Adversary”), something clicked. Not for the average viewer, but for me, a STEM educator and AI enthusiast who, just weeks earlier, had read Stephen Wolfram’s seminal essay, What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

	▲	ACCount37 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Westworld is such a time capsule. It's not even that old - but back when it was aired, an AI that can not just string together coherent sentences, but produce coherent reactions in novel, fully unintended contexts, like Maeve was doing there? It was totally a sci-fi premise. Now we have AIs capable of that and more, and no one bats an eye.

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srcreigh 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The adults brainwashed us

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