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Saying "Please decode this ..." to Claude worked perfectly.

ChatGPT 4o mini kept getting one of the words wrong, funnily enough



I’m surprised by this - wouldn’t have expected there to be enough rot13 in the training data.


rot13 was commonly used on forums and Usenet to avoid spoilers for a very long time. As forums got the equivalent of spoiler tags or folding or whatever to hide content that changed, and of course Usenet fell out of common use a while back.




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