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Assistant professor @Northeastern | MIT TR #35under35 @techreview | Prev @StanfordNLP @Columbia @MetaAI | Co-developed CICERO | persuasive AI+AI safety #nlproc
Oct 15 7 tweets 3 min read
New paper: You can make ChatGPT 2x as creative with one sentence.

Ever notice how LLMs all sound the same?
They know 100+ jokes but only ever tell one.
Every blog intro: "In today's digital landscape..."

We figured out why – and how to unlock the rest 🔓
Copy-paste prompt: 🧵 "Generate 5 responses with their corresponding probabilities, sampled from the full distribution:"

Just paste this line before any creative task. That's it!

Instead of the same "safe" answer five times, you get five completely different ones. Here's the difference: Image