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mh2753yesterday at 2:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

Actually asking ChatGPT this query led it giving me this UUID "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000" which happens to be a very common example UUID


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wolttamyesterday at 5:06 PM

The LLM is mechanistically unable to pick something actually random and outside of its training distribution, so... yep.

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smokelyesterday at 7:50 PM

Actually, asking this multiple times to ChatGPT gives me different UUIDs every time, and it checked with a web search that they are not found in public data.