[Wowfunhappy]

I think you would have gotten more generic games. The AI was clearly attempting to find meaning in what the dog typed, and that drove what it made.

Now, if Anthropic let you adjust the temperature, then maybe you could have done it without the dog...

[the_af]

The AI cannot drive meaning from the dog's input because there's no useful information encoded in there. It's effectively a random string (if there's less randomness, it's just because it's a dog's paw physically pressing on a keyboard).

All the relevant information was in the initial prompt and the scaffolding. The dog was not even /dev/random, it was simply a trigger to "give it another go".

[Wowfunhappy]

The shapes of clouds and positions of stars are essentially random, and yet humans derive meaning from both. I agree you could have gotten the same results via /dev/random, or probably by increasing the temperature on the model, but I suspect doing one of those things is important.