Ask a Language Model for Lottery Numbers: Concentration in Repeated Six-of-49 Outputs

Six language models were tested for generating six random numbers from 1 to 49. The results showed significant repetition, with one specific set of numbers appearing in between 22.5% and 68.0% of all outputs across the tested systems. This concentration proves that the models do not produce truly independent, uniform random samples.

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