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> Moreover, they have a uniform style, even though your prompt doesn’t ask for one.

This shouldn’t really come as a surprise, particularly to anyone who’s used diffusion models. The same thing happens when you ask an LLM for a short story [1] without providing any specific details.

Even cranking up the temperature or top_p values is no panacea. The more generic your prompt, the more pedestrian the response.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42093394



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