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See the Sideways Move

Jennifer Shahade · 23 Oct 2026

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  1. Our reading

    LLMs converge on popular patterns and themes rather than providing truly random results.

    Their wordsLLMs aren't trying to give you a random result, but a likely result, and their training data contains lots of sevens. So that's what you'll get. Again and again. Unless you prompt it not to.

  2. Our reading

    Using LLMs for brainstorming may lead to a narrow path of predictable ideas.

    Their wordsWhat feels like a random, organic process may be leading us down a narrow path of cool sounding numbers and ideas.

  3. Our reading

    The value of divergence will increase as LLM-generated content becomes more prevalent.

    Their wordsAs we are surrounded more and more with LLM generated text, images and ideas, the value of divergence will go up and up.

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