--- title: "LLMs are stuck in a groupthink rut. This startup is trying to get them out." url: https://daily.dev/posts/llms-are-stuck-in-a-groupthink-rut-this-startup-is-trying-to-get-them-out--2otelcdhy source_url: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/01/1140003/llms-are-stuck-in-a-groupthink-rut-this-startup-is-trying-to-get-them-out type: article source: "MIT Technology Review" published: 2026-07-01T14:43:46.717Z updated: 2026-07-01T14:44:17.280Z tags: ["llm", "qwen"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # LLMs are stuck in a groupthink rut. This startup is trying to get them out. **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 9 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Most large language models exhibit a striking homogeneity in their outputs — ask any major chatbot for a random number and you'll almost always get 7. Research presented at NeurIPS 2025 confirmed this 'artificial hivemind' effect, showing that 25 different LLMs converged on nearly identical metaphors when given open-ended prompts. Australian startup Springboards built Flint, an LLM fine-tuned on Alibaba's Qwen 3, that targets specific decision points in its output to inject controlled randomness rather than blindly cranking up the temperature parameter. The approach aims to serve creative professionals in advertising and marketing who need genuinely novel brainstorming rather than statistically average responses. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming.](https://daily.dev/posts/llms-are-a-failure-a-new-ai-winter-is-coming--ehtpgyz3i) · Hacker News · 53 upvotes · 29 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#qwen](https://daily.dev/tags/qwen) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/llms-are-stuck-in-a-groupthink-rut-this-startup-is-trying-to-get-them-out--2otelcdhy)