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[โ€“] snooggums@piefed.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The explanation is a separate query and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how it presented the answer initially.

[โ€“] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You're absolutely incorrect. The explanation is not an explanation made after the fact, it's a simple technique called chain of thought where the LLM must append a log with this type of "reasoning" during the entire process, as that's been shown to reduce the rate of errors in complicated queries.

Explanations that are a separate query are only the title it gives to the conversation and the little one sentence "progress" updates it gives (in certain UIs, like Gemini, others just leave a default "Thinking...)