capricious
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You really see this change, and yet it doesn’t feel capricious because he has been listening the whole time.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
While engineers have spent decades trying to create “explainable AI,” a defining characteristic of today’s large language models is that they remain biased black boxes that are capricious in their decision-making.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
"USCIS's actions are contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious."
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
What will June bring at the venerable but capricious Long Island venue?
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026
What I knew of physics I had learned in the junkyard, where the physical world often seemed unstable, capricious.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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