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lukeschlatheryesterday at 3:50 PM0 repliesview on HN

That's because you aren't actually rewinding. You're replaying the conversation you just had through the LLM and it's giving you a likely explanation for what it might have said.

It is actually possible to rewind LLMs and get the same response, but it's not typically done both as an optimization and as a defense against distillation.