This may be obvious to many people already, but I recently thought about this in a few scenarios and figured it may be valuable to articulate it clearly. One note before the main discussion is we should acknowledge that LLMs do have some sort of independent and creative thinking. Some folks are still skeptical about…

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LLMs are not a good tool for effective brainstorming due to their training to follow existing patterns and converge to existing consensus. Potential solutions to improve LLM training for brainstorming are discussed.

LLMs are not suitable for brainstorming