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isn’t a LLM itself basically a compression of the texts from the internet? you can download the model and decompress the (larger) content with compute power (lossy)


Yeah that’s exactly how I think of llms in my head: lossy compression that interpolates in order to fill in gaps. Hallucination is simply interpolation error. Which is guaranteed in lossy compression.




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