LLMs randomly choose 42

via Mind Prison

Pointed out by Information is Beautiful, a very interesting distribution forms when AI is asked to pick a number between 1 and 100. There is a heavy weighting toward picking the number ‘42’. Likely, this is the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy effect. The number 42 is overrepresented or weighted in some way through training, resulting in a higher propensity for the LLM to choose 42.