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Wikipedia is one of the last genuine places on the Internet, and these rat bastards are trying to contaminate that, too
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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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Tokens are a lossless conversion, you can convert it back to the original text.
This isn't about saying "return the original text" this is about assuming LLMs understand language, and they don't. Telling an LLM "don't do these things" will be as effective as telling it "don't hallucinate" or asking it "how many 'r's in 'strawberry'.
In order to make such affirmation or infirmation we'll need to define understanding.
The example you gave can be explained by other way than "it doesn't understand".
For example, the "how many 'r' in strawberry", LLMs see tokens, and the dataset they use, doesn't contain a lot of data about the letters that are present in a token.