alt Hacker News> Why do all LLMs do a particle simulation when you ask them this prompt ? Qwen3.6, Qwen3.8 and Ling 3.0 Tiny all did the same thing !
Datasets contains lots of people sharing particles simulations in various ways, with a bunch of people replying "that's so cool" and similar, so 10 years later someone asks an LLM for "cool thing" and "particle simulations" rank pretty far up when it thinks about what others have called cool.
There is that, but RLHF is a stronger influence. People who asked to build a cool HTML and JavaScript thing, or things of that sort were more pleased to see working shaders and other cool visual effects that are obscure to create (for most). That gets fed back as a reward.
Also the reason LLMs are positive, enchanting, pleasant, glorifying, demagogues.
Not because it's skewed tone in the data. They are acute politicians.