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An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

(simonwillison.net)
509 points tosh | 3 comments | 29 Aug 25 09:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source

(the referenced HN thread starts at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45060519)
1. mr_toad ◴[02 Sep 25 10:12 UTC] No.45101075[source]▶
That’s not the title of the article (granted, it doesn’t have one), and the author calls the analogy “questionable”.
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2. Svip ◴[02 Sep 25 10:17 UTC] No.45101101[source]▶
In the HTML's <title>-tag, it's called "Lossy encyclopedia".
3. simonw ◴[02 Sep 25 10:19 UTC] No.45101113[source]▶
Most analogies are questionable in my experience - I find calling something a "questionable analogy" makes it a tiny bit less likely that people will pick it apart with thousands of reasons it's not an exact match for what it's describing.