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Bite 027 · Wed 2 Sep 2026
✅ Creative

AI gives you the most probable design, not the best one

Chimala’s point is that a model “can’t inherently act randomly”: it picks the most likely next token, so left alone it hands you the layout it has seen most often, centred hero, three-column grid, purple gradient. The fix is to push variety in from outside, with an ambitious, specific art direction or a random string the model is told to treat as inspiration. The model isn’t short on ideas, only on permission to pick an unlikely one.

💡 Why it matters

Every AI-drafted landing page, ad mock and social visual drifts toward the same safe layout because the model is built to pick the most likely answer, so the sameness you keep seeing is a briefing problem you can fix, not a ceiling on the tool.

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