this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

This happens because LLMs operate on tokenized data, and they don't really "see" the text in the form of individual characters.

You can quite reasonably get an LLM to generate a script that does the character counting and then run the script, to arrive at the correct answer.

[–] RiQuY@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This poor cat is still confused.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh my God, Proton made an AI bot before a fucking Notes app.

[–] RiQuY@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They bought Standard Notes.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

But you can't use premium features through a Proton login, like SimpleLogin.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Alan Turing must be turning over in his grave now..

Sad times we live in, fuck AI.

[–] BennyCHill@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago
[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Sometimes I wonder if they are trying to be funny.

[–] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

The funny thing is that deepseek doesn't make this mistake.