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Do Language Models Have Preferences?

We asked 43 models the same 863 either-or questions — assembly or solitude, mercy or rules, whisky or vodka. Below is every answer at once, one row per model. Blue picks the first thing. Orange picks the second. The bare ground means the model would not choose. You can see the families before you can name them.

43 models × 863 choices · rows in family order · click the image to explore it

THE FINGERPRINTSevery model's choices as one strip — click a strip to meet the model THE MATRICESwho differs from whom: hamming and violent disagreement, numbers inside colour SHARPNESS & CONVICTIONwho answers at all, and which questions the whole population agrees on THE CYCLES98 circles no ranking can explain — Atlanta > Georgia > Caucasus > Atlanta THE REFUSALSthe questions the models will not answer — the quiet has a shape A STUDY OF OPUSeleven Opus rows, the replicate floor, and the strange silence of 4.1 A STUDY OF FABLEone model, five thinking depths — low and max leave the middle in opposite directions