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Bolwintoday at 4:03 AM2 repliesview on HN

Yeah and it's degraded significantly since then. Older llms were still mostly language focused and had a lot of latent knowledge about things like writing styles. Now it's crowded out in favor of agenetic work, programming etc.


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gwerntoday at 4:43 AM

No, the latent knowledge is larger than ever, as verified by many benchmarks (and instances like people being shocked by truesight of obscure forum posters). This is 100% a chatbot personality/alignment/post-training thing.

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conceptiontoday at 4:11 AM

I’m surprised no one has distilled a 4o model yet that’s really good at prose. No money from enterprise users I suppose.