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An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

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509 points tosh | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 09:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.397s | source

(the referenced HN thread starts at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45060519)
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alanfranz ◴[02 Sep 25 10:58 UTC] No.45101360[source]▶
I think it’s an old analogy, and a good one. LLMs are for knowledge what mp3s were for audio.

This was widely discussed in the past years as well.

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1. cush ◴[02 Sep 25 22:03 UTC] No.45109713[source]▶
It's a terrible analogy because LLMs are already for audio what LLMs are for audio. You can use LLMs to create new songs and sounds. Encyclopedias don't create new songs.