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2snakes04/23/20252 repliesview on HN

I read one characterization which is that LLMs don't give new information (except to the user learning) but they reorganize old information.


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barrenko04/23/2025

Custodians of human knowledge.

docmechanic04/23/2025

That’s only true if you tokenize words rather than characters. Character tokenization generates new content outside the training vocabulary.

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