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Re:The US Is Winning the AI Race by boothby on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:03PM (#48124558)
This is why misspellings and homophones are tells of human righting. LLMs strongly prefer word-level tokens, and word substitutions follow semantic similarity and not the more human auditory similarity.
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Re:The US Is Winning the AI Race by jddj on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @04:01PM (#48126699)
Claude the other day wrote code where one of the bytes in the array was 0xO5.

That's zero ex oh (the letter) five

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Re:The US Is Winning the AI Race by omneity on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:43PM (#48125045)
Funny, I’ve been cracking[0] at this exact problem with a purpose-built model[1]:

0: https://huggingface.co/posts/omarkamali/593639295164067

1: https://omneitylabs.com/models/sawtone

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Re:The US Is Winning the AI Race by mejutoco on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:29PM (#48124876)
> righting.

> LLMs strongly prefer word-level tokens, and word substitutions follow semantic similarity and not the more human auditory similarity.

Is this an elaborate joke or your full-word misspelling of writing is both agreeing with your statement (word substitutions) and contradicting it (not semantic but only pronunciation similarity)

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Re:The US Is Winning the AI Race by calfuris on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:43PM (#48125044)
I don't see the contradiction, unless you believe that the grandparent comment was written by an LLM.
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