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xiomrzeyesterday at 10:06 PM4 repliesview on HN

Honest question, how do you know if it's pulling from context vs from memory?

If I use Opus 4.6 with Extended Thinking (Web Search disabled, no books attached), it answers with 130 spells.


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petercooperyesterday at 10:18 PM

One possible trick could be to search and replace them all with nonsense alternatives then see if it extracts those.

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ozimyesterday at 10:24 PM

Exactly there was this study where they were trying to make LLM reproduce HP book word for word like giving first sentences and letting it cook.

Basically they managed with some tricks make 99% word for word - tricks were needed to bypass security measures that are there in place for exactly reason to stop people to retrieve training material.

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ck_oneyesterday at 10:34 PM

When I tried it without web search so only internal knowledge it missed ~15 spells.

clanker_flufferyesterday at 10:16 PM

What was your prompt?