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Temperature=0 does not make LLM outputs deterministic

Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.blacksky.app

Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her

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Abeba Birhane
@abeba.blacksky.app

i don’t know who needs to hear this (well, I do -- most researchers in the behavioural sciences using llm-as-a-judge or as synthetic human): setting the temperature to 0 does NOT make llm outputs deterministic

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Temperature=0 does not make LLM outputs deterministic — AIBriefs