Raphael De Lio @raphaeldelio.dev · Jul 28 A 2024 paper, Is Temperature the Creativity Parameter of LLMs?, tested this. They looked at 4 things in story writing: ✅ Novelty ❌ Typicality ❌ Cohesion ⚠️ Coherence Findings: – Slight novelty boost – Stories made less sense – No real gain in structure or genre‑fit
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The takeaway? Temperature isn’t a “creativity dial.” LLMs can produce outputs that look creative (poems, jokes, plot twists) but they’re remixing patterns, not inventing. 👉 When AI surprises us, does that count as creativity?Or are we just giving randomness too much credit?