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They already do this, if you ask for a pelican on a bicycle you will get a pelican on a bicycle. However your simple prompt has very little semantic capacity and underspecifies the rest. This phenomenon makes the underspecified part devolve into annoying repetitive patterns that are the same for everyone and even in the same generation.

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I guess we have different expectations from these tools. I want predictability and direct-ability. I don't know how we can have that from LLMs without some emergent same-ness in outputs to vague prompts.

Snapping out of the "boring and repetitive" rut here is on us to prompt more creatively. Maybe that's the new "garbage in, garbage out".

You can't predict it either way as it still makes "random" choice unrelated to what you asked (because you haven't asked for anything in particular!). It's just "frozen" random.

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