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anigbrowlyesterday at 8:40 PM4 repliesview on HN

But this only seems wrong to you because you're familiar with the prior context. When there's only a single paragraph to work from, and it's a drily humorous text, why not employ comic literalism and lean into the perplexity with which his neighbors viewed him?


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shepherdjerredyesterday at 11:38 PM

Isn't this almost certainly in the training set?

mvdtnzyesterday at 8:52 PM

The LLM has access to the full text and every translation of it ever produced, both in its corpus and on the searchable web.

lern_too_spelyesterday at 9:40 PM

The fact that a ring appears at the end proves that the model has context beyond what was in the prompt. The model clearly knows the story that the prompt was extracted from.

emp17344yesterday at 9:53 PM

This is a rationalization. The simpler explanation is that the model failed to properly depict the passage. As the AI booster crowd would say, cope.