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An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

(simonwillison.net)
509 points tosh | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 09:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source

(the referenced HN thread starts at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45060519)
1. cess11 ◴[02 Sep 25 13:43 UTC] No.45103028[source]▶
Characteristic of an encyclopedia is that is has structure on several levels.

The output of an LLM does not. It can be coerced into faking structure, but that is quite brittle and still just an emulation.