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Planktonneyesterday at 10:47 PM1 replyview on HN

It's a short article; you could read it. One example to get you started is the very first sentence:

> Strictly speaking, the statement “LLMs are next-token predictors” isn’t wrong, but it’s incomplete.

The article is about how 'next-token predictor' is the wrong mental model; it opens with the admission that it is not the wrong mental model.


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zahlmanyesterday at 11:06 PM

I did read it. People are allowed to disagree with your conclusions. Comment guidelines ask us all not to make such accusations.

To say that a statement is incomplete, but not strictly speaking wrong, is perfectly compatible with describing it informally as "wrong" in the sense used in the title (i.e.: "not the most appropriate possibility").

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