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  • It’s interesting since 0004 is technically just as random as any other lock combination on paper. If you choose a random number between 0000 and 9999, every number has the same chance.

    Same with the private key of 4. It was still 47 bytes of 0 and one byte of 4 as storage for P-384.

    So if you randomly tested keys, you would take as long to find it on average as any other key.

    The problem is that, similar to cracking a number lock, one of the things to check first is weak patterns. This means people on a number lock would start at 0000 and turn one dial. Simlar things happened with the certificates afaik. Someone checked if those certs keys were any low integer and indeed they were.


  • It’s essentially by design. To keep AI from destabilizing, the way AI is tuned is to essentially ‘go the same safe way’ on similar prompts. LLM models are essentially a giant field of weights for chains of tokens. Prompts are turned into tokens and the closest result is the output. The more room you give it to vary, the more different styles and variation it can express with a propmpt, but it raises the chance of destabilizing the ouput, producing things like additional fingers or complete garbage. It’s tuned to walk the same way to produce something we perceive as “passable” but it comes at the cost of taking away variation, which is why AI art/writing will consistenly converge towards the same narrow style set.

    (This explanation is not super accurate. I just tried to convey the jist of it)