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What happens when you raise a language model's temperature setting?

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  1. The model runs faster
  2. The output gets more random
  3. The model gets more accurate

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  1. Google Machine Learning Glossary: Generative AI (temperature) developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary/generative Checked 2026-10-10.

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