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It must be a silent R (lemmy.world)
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[–] sus@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

many words should run into the same issue, since LLMs generally use less tokens per word than there are letters in the word. So they don't have direct access to the letters composing the word, and have to go off indirect associations between "strawberry" and the letter "R"

duckassist seems to get most right but it claimed "ouroboros" contains 3 o's and "phrasebook" contains one c.