How to get AI to generate more ideas by itself
EngineeringJohn Rising · August 9, 2026Can an AI Model Give You a Different Idea?Ask an AI model for ten ideas and you will rarely get ten. Most models only give three to five; the rest are repeats. The model picks a likely answer and keeps giving it back.
- ▪EngineeringJohn Rising · August 9, 2026Can an AI Model Give You a Different Idea?Ask an AI model for ten ideas and you will rarely get ten.
- ▪Most models only give three to five; the rest are repeats.
- ▪The model picks a likely answer and keeps giving it back.
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EngineeringJohn Rising · August 9, 2026Can an AI Model Give You a Different Idea?Ask an AI model for ten ideas and you will rarely get ten. Most models only give three to five; the rest are repeats. This is called idea-mode collapse. The model picks a likely answer and keeps giving it back. That is one reason AI writing can be dull even when it reads well. It also blocks one of the best uses of AI. Good products, plans, and stories come from trying many ideas first. A model can dig into one idea fast, but it cannot give you many. So how can you get a model to give you more ideas? There are common techniques and a growing body of research, but in my own work they rarely seemed to help. So I ran an experiment to find out which ones work.
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