Ask HN: Why 17?

7 points by tonyvince7 6 days ago

If I ask an LLM to pick a number between 1 and 30, it always picks 17. Tried with multiple models. Why 17?

boltguo 4 days ago

The model selects answers based on learned probabilities; for this type of question, the probability associated with "17" is relatively high, which is why it appears frequently.