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Yeah no, that's not how this works.
Where in the process does that seed play a role and what do you even mean with numerical noise?
Edit: I feel like I should add that I am very interested in learning more. If you can provide me with any sources to show that GPTs are inherently random I am happy to eat my own hat.
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/api.md#request-reproducible-outputs
LLMs are prompted with a seed. If you change the seed you get a different answer.
I appreciate the constructive comment.
Unfortunately the API docs are incomplete (insert obi wan meme here). The seed value is both optional and irrelevant when setting the temperature to 0. I just tested it.
Addendum:
The docs say
But what they should say is
Easy mistake to make