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		Machado117 42 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the firs... Do LLMs have any perception that Harry Potter is fiction or is it possible that they will give some magical advice based on fiction works that they have been trained with? edit: never mind, I’ll just ask ChatGPT

otabdeveloper4 42 days ago [–]

LLMs don't have "perception" at all, they only ever output a likely text completion token.

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