In VC investing there is the saying that most of the value comes from the outliers. I think it’s the same for a lot of domains. I read an interesting article recently on LLMs homogeneity when writing fiction: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136
It seem that at scale LLMs output is the average of their dataset, they all cluster around the same space, where human creativity comes with more variance, exploring way more of the space
It seem that at scale LLMs output is the average of their dataset, they all cluster around the same space, where human creativity comes with more variance, exploring way more of the space