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Wild WordAI Experience

temperature

A sampling knob: low is deterministic and boring, high is varied and more likely to wander or hallucinate.

First Seen

2022

Context

Borrowed from statistical mechanics and the softmax function. At temperature 0, the model always picks the most likely token. As temperature rises, the probability distribution flattens, making rare tokens more likely to be sampled — useful for creative writing but risky for factual tasks.

A wild word — documented from usage in the field, not coined by Xenolexica.

Creation & Emergence