[richardw]

> I view LLMs akin to a dictionary

…If every time you looked at the dictionary it gave you a slightly different definition, and sometimes it gave you the wrong definition!

[sdf2erf]

Go look up the same word across various dictionaries - they do not have a 1:1 copy of the descriptions of terms.

Reproducibility is a separate issue.

[fauigerzigerk]

Dictionaries are not a great analogy, because the standout feature of LLMs is that their output can change based on the context provided by individual users.

Differences between dictionaries are decided by the authors and publishers of the dictionaries without taking individual user queries into account.