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Investigating the Perceived Unpredictability of Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Temperature and Pre-Prompting

2026-05-14

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<p>With the growing prevalence of systems that use generative models, understanding how humans perceive these systems is of utmost importance. AI systems are widely characterised as “unpredictable,” potentially eroding user trust, safety, and reliable adoption. Developers routinely tune the temperature hyperparameter of foundation models to manage this risk. It is unclear how the temperature hyperparameter and pre...

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Literature Corpus work: 5519786e-f274-52a2-bb3b-39293ff64a5e
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8vn4w_v1

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