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SmashDantoday at 1:11 AM1 replyview on HN

Anyone know why they aren't good at this?


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matt_kantortoday at 2:34 AM

LLMs see tokens, not words spelled out with letters.

Imagine verbally asking someone who has never seen written text the same question: unless they memorized the answer for the specific word you're asking about, they'd have to guess.

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