AI Glossary / Seed
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Seed
Randomness seed - the same seed and prompt produce repeatable generation results.
Seed is a number that initializes the random generator. Generation in AI has a random element, but controlled: the same prompt with the same seed and settings produces (in principle) the same result. It matters most in image generators: by saving a successful image's seed, you can return to it and make variants - change one prompt element while keeping the rest of the composition. In language models, seed is sometimes available in APIs when someone needs repeatable responses.
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