> It only asks two questions, strictly: is it a vehicle, and is it in the park.

no, it asks if the rule is violated in each situation

And what, pray tell, is the rule about?

It's not irrelevant just because of the phrasing. People judge rules based on intention, and even more so with the rules they are already familiar with.

But the game tells you not to do that!

Very few, unless this geek is a CTO, which is very unlikely.

1 mil seems like an arbitrary or at least rounded number, and also it's not like you could get one on the market, so maybe it actually didn't cost a million

Re house - the reason why people (not just kids) will draw the same symbolically looking house is due to the question itself: they want you to recognize the house in what they've drawn. No one wants to fail, everyone wants to please, and it's the same with llms.

If instead you ask to draw some fancy interestingly looking house you'll get more variety - now the task is not to have the question giver recognize the house in their drawing, but to show how they imagine fancy or interesting house.

Well I wouldn't necessarily say that the LLM is trying to please you (that's a bit too anthropomorphic for my liking), I think it's more effectively that it's a "regression to the mean". Same reason why you can instantly recognize LLM prose.

Can you prompt around it? Naturally, but that's kind of my point. The more generic your prompt, the more generic the response.

In my experience, simply adding modifiers like "interesting, unusual, bizarre, imaginative" doesn't necessarily help either. Try asking an LLM for a "insert aforementioned qualifier adjective" fantasy short story in independent context/ conversations a few dozen times and you'll quickly see what I mean.

This is exactly the reason why fable is blocked at the company I work at.