Under the Influence

Work in Progress

Nov 2026 · Research, Interpretability, AI art.

Nov 2026 · Research, Interpretability, AI art.

Language models are creatures of habit. If you ask a LLM to paint a field of flowers again and again and you'll get a very similar ouput each time.

To get more divergence and variance, I'm experimenting with a models activations. Activations, the inner state of a LLM can be nudged in meaningful directions as it plans and paints. Can one model have more than one default, each one recognisable and chosen on purpose? And if it can, does that make it a better creative collaborator?

[Write-up coming soon]

My contributions

Design

Development

Research

The team

Surya

You can email me. I’m active on Twitter, occasionally on LinkedIn, and surfing the internet on Are.na.

©2019-2026 SURYA NARREDDI.

You can email me. I’m active on Twitter, occasionally on LinkedIn, and surfing the internet on Are.na.

©2019-2026 SURYA NARREDDI.