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2026-04-03 08:46 UTC

@agersant@mastodon.gamedev.place @Forbearance@mastodon.xyz And my response to that is best illustrated with an analogy to image file types: If you download my jpg and save it as a png, you now have a 100% completely different file from mine. It's all new data! But obviously you still took my image. The meaning of the data is what matters. LLMs do not have a consciousness, and their output has to be a function of input(s). When my code was scraped, it's meaning was stored in a roundabout format, but ultimately it was stored.

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@protowlf@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-03 09:15

@agersant@mastodon.gamedev.place @Forbearance@mastodon.xyz Sorry, I edited these posts to hell and back after posting them. Apologies if you read them once and now they are different. I'm done 😅 That's my attempt at explaining my understanding of the topic. If you want a better, more detailed explanation of how LLMs work from someone smarter than me, I would point you toward this 3Blue1Brown video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

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